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

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Thanks for the info Marc.

Looks like Providence Software XVT is indeed a cross-platform
toolkit.

Marc Rochkind <mrochkind at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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