lef@nlm-vax.ARPA (Larry Fitzpatrick) (03/06/85)
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Back in December, PC Week ran an article stating that several
companies(*) were banding together to push for a standard
"graphically oriented windowing environment". Standard, that is,
for the developer. My understanding (my need, in any case) is that
this would provide a basic functionality for manipulating windows,
etc. so that the developer of an application would not have to get
involved with the low-level screen manipulation.
I have heard of several packages that would act in this manner,
some of which are "coming soon" others which are out of reach(**,
with the possible exception of ALYS from Applix),
none of which seem to come close to being portable, let alone
standard.
Does anyone know of:
a) any activity in this area by the companies in * ?
b) any activity in this area by anyone not previously mentioned ?
* - Microsoft, DRI, Intel, Apollo, Masscomp, Sun Micro Sys, Olivetti,
Motorola, Nova Graphics
** - Apple's Toolkit-32; GEM; ALYS from Applix; W/X/V packages from
groups at MIT and Stanford; does SunWindows fit the bill?; LOOPS?
-fitz
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