Xref: utzoo alt.toolkits.xview:103 comp.windows.open-look:489 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!deccrl!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd.auc.dk!fischer From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.toolkits.xview,comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: XView on non Sun platforms Message-ID: Date: 29 Jan 91 18:20:57 GMT References: <832@keele.keele.ac.uk> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 34 In-reply-to: cca13@seq1.keele.ac.uk's message of 29 Jan 91 13:39:43 GMT >>>>> On 29 Jan 91 13:39:43 GMT, cca13@seq1.keele.ac.uk (G.D. Pratt) said: Gerry> Does anybody know whether XView is being/going to be ported to IBM Gerry> and DEC Workstations or is it always going to sit on Sun kit? According to Sun, XView is in the process of being ported to DEC, HP, and IBM RIOS (by Sun), to PC/DOS (by Quaterdeck) and to Mac A/UX (by i-can-remember-what-there-is). This port was scheduled for "the beginning of '91", so with a bit of luck it will hit the streets before the release of XView 3.0. Also, XView is (sort-a) included in SysVr4. Dell, for one, has announced it for their UNIX PC. Expect several others to follow suit. Commodore has OPEN LOOK GUI for the Amiga Unix box, but it's a bit unclear if they have XView. Getting XView up on a non-Sun machine isn't that hard if you can live without the tty subwindow stuff. Gerry> Also I understand from a friend that a company called Quarterdeck, Gerry> who have a PC/X product called Desqview(?), are supposed to be Gerry> porting XView to run on a PC - anyone know it that is correct? DesqView/X, an X implementation and DOS multitasker for the PC, has been announced, but not yet released to the general public. DesqView/X will (they promise) include X11R4, Motif toolkit, OLIT, XView, and more. It has been demonstrated at a number of conferences recently and is rumored to work. Release date is "Q1/91". Hopefully that's not an Aston-Tate date. /Lars -- Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk | Beauty is a French phonetic corruption CS Dept., Univ. of Aalborg, DENMARK. | - FZ