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Subject: Re: Does anybody know about X/Open's CAE?
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Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 21:17:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 23 21:17:34 1987
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Reply-To: brunner@sri-spam.UUCP (Thomas Eric Brunner)
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Keywords: X/Open CAE
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In article <135@tahoma.ARPA> bakken@tahoma.ARPA (Dave Bakken) writes:
<what appears to be a press release quoting Geoff Morris (ICL), deleted>

>Where can I get more information about this?  Has anybody else heard anything
>about this (sorry, I missed Uniforum and requests for information from AT&T
>and Apollo have not bore fruit)?  Any information about this will be
>greatly appreciated, since we are developing Unix windowing applications
>and are looking at X-Windows when V11 hits the streets.  Thanks in advance. :-)
>
>Dave Bakken
>uw-beaver!ssc-vax!shuksan!tahoma!bakken

The Group started out as the "BISON" group, composed of Bull, ICL, Siemens,
Olivetti, and Nixdorf. For a while they were the "Open Unix Club", but AT&T
took offense to the second four letter word...
In August of 1985 I began work on what was published as the "X/OPEN Common
Applications Environment", the work took me all of a year. The CAE has been
read by other major vendors since, and I am some what proud to say, found
to be a good bit of work. If you think otherwise, please let me know why.

The portion(s) which might be of interest of readers of this list, aside
from the specifications of system entry points, libraries, file formats,
devices and the like were not established when the first edition went to
press. I will be reviewing the second edition, as well as the second edition
of Doug Kevorkian's work (aka "The System V Interface Definition"), and
the latest P1003 draft in the "Internationalization" session of next June's
USENIX. If you really are interested I urge you to attend as I am putting
considerable effort into this paper and talk.

/teb
-- 
how about a great big spidery "X"?