From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: patbarron@acm.org (Pat Barron) Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:53:13 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Classic Unix workstation GUIs In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5031A699.7060302@acm.org> On 8/19/2012 10:40 PM, Michael Kerpan wrote: > The recent FOSS release of CDE has got me thinking of other Unix GUIs > from the "golden age" of workstation Unix. Obviously, stuff like > SunView and OpenWindows from Sun and 4DWM/Indigo Desktop from SGI are > pretty well known, but I've always wondered what else was out there.So > far, I've come across Looking Glass, DECWindows and HP VUE. Is there > anything else of any importance/interest out there? > It was never commercial, but there was Virtue (later known as the Andrew Toolkit, and even later than that known as the Andrew User Interface System) - the windowing system developed at Carnegie Mellon University as part of the Andrew Project (an early campus-wide workstation computing initiative). It started out as a completely self-contained user interface system, but (much) later was changed to use X11 to drive the workstation's display (in the early days of the Andrew Project, there was no X Window System....). http://www.cmu.edu/corporate/news/2007/features/andrew/index.shtml I still fondly recall using Andrew workstations (my favorites were the Sun-2's... :-) ) when I was working at CMU. You could probably still find the older Virtue code if you look. Getting it to build on anything anymore - that's probably a more difficult problem. ;-) --Pat.