[TUHS] Four windowing systems on SunOS

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Tue Nov 1 05:14:01 AEST 2022


Sunview was a toolkit - a really nice one in my opinion, every api had
a set of defaults and a key, so you could call sv_whatever(SV_DONE)
and did whatever with the default values.  But you could override the
defaults like so sv_whatever(SV_SOMEKEY, some_value, SV_DONE).  It
kept the system from being very verbose.

People like Sunview's api enough that there was an Xview toolkit which
was Sunview ported to X10/X11.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 11:21:40AM -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote:
> Cameron Kaiser has written up a nice survey on some windowing systems
> that can run under OS/MP or SunOS
> https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/10/if-one-guis-not-enough-for-your-sparc.html

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