[TUHS] Whither XVT? [ From the SVID thread ]

[Marc Rochkind]

Arnold,

I left XVT around 1992 or so and shortly after that it was absorbed into a
California company owned by XVT's VC investor. Then the XVT assets were
sold to someone and it was operated for some years as an independent
company, but I don't know what happened after that. I haven't had any
contact at all with XVT for over 30 years.

Poking around, I see this website:

https://providencesoftware.com/

where XVT seems still to exist. But that's just from Googling; I don't have
any other knowledge.

Indeed XVT supported character displays in addition to GUIs.

Marc

On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:

> Hi Marc,
>
> Marc Rochkind <mrochkind at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was on a different committee that was trying to standardize a universal
> > GUI interface that could work on any GUI, including Mac, Windows, Motif,
> > and OpenLook. My product, XVT, was the base document. We never got past
> the
> > draft stage.
>
> I think XVT also supported libcurses, no?
>
> Around 1990-1991 I was in a start-up company and we looked at XVT
> for the UI we wanted to write.  I remember being in the confeerence room
> on a phone call with you, and thinking how cool it was that we were
> talking to one of those famous UNIX guys who'd been at Bell Labs.
>
> A modern incarnation of your idea is the Qt toolkit, which lets one
> write C++ UI (and more) code that runs the same on Windows, Mac, *nix,
> and these days maybe even Android and iPhone.
>
> In any case, is the XVT code around somewhere?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnold
>


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