marquet@yarra-glen.aaii.oz.au (John Marquet) (05/24/89)
With the imminent arrival of IBM's Presentation Manager, UNIX's Open Look and Motif, and semi-proprietary screen `styles' like Decwindows, the user community expects wimp interfaces with everything, or so I'm told. There is going to be a demand for an implementation of IBM's Common User Access (CUA) style on top of dumb terminals attached to UNIX system. The demand is so obvious that the people around here are saying: "surely somebody has written such an interface.. , e.g. on top of curses. Hostory shows that when people start saying "Surely, etc.." you're generally in for a hard time (my own experience was with a search for an algorithm that would predict the dates of Easter). But this is 1989, the era of the network; so could somebody PLEASE prove me wrong and tell me where an implementation of CUA for low-tech UNIX-type terminals might exist? Many thanks, John Marquet (marquet@yarra-glen.aaii.oz)