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From: guido@mcvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: What happened to the 'universal window manager interface'?
Message-ID: <7331@boring.mcvax.cwi.nl>
Date: Sun, 5-Apr-87 16:54:32 EST
Article-I.D.: boring.7331
Posted: Sun Apr  5 16:54:32 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Apr-87 02:28:26 EST
Reply-To: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
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Long, long ago (a year?) somebody started a net-wide project whose
purpose was to design and implement an interface to window managers
which would allow applications to be written that could easily be ported
to other machines such as the Atari or the Amiga.  I believe I've even
seen a status report on the project, which mentioned some delay but
promised results in the end.

It all happened so long ago that I have completely forgotten all names
and other details of the project; even the above summary may be quite
beside the truth.  Also, it may be the case that the project continued
in the Atari and/or Amiga worlds but was abandoned for the Mac; I don't
read the Atari/Amiga newsgroups.  But I'm currently very interested in
what came out of it, if anything.  Is the original poster still working
on it?

Please send mail to:

Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam
guido@cwi.nl or mcvax!guido or guido%cwi.nl@seismo.css.gov (from ARPAnet)