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- From: mcgrant@rascals.stanford.edu (Michael C. Grant)
- Subject: Re: APIs across Sun, Mac, and PC?
- In-Reply-To: murakami@idas.imslab.co.jp's message of 14 Sep 92 03:24:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <MCGRANT.92Sep14124515@rascals.stanford.edu>
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- Organization: Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University
- References: <1992Sep10.175657.13369@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 12:45:15
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- In article <1992Sep10.175657.13369@parc.xerox.com>,
- fromherz@parc.xerox.com (Markus Fromherz) writes:
- > What development environments, class libraries, application frameworks
- > or APIs exist that allow to write programs portable across Suns, Macs
- > and PCs?
-
- I believe the Galaxy environment by Visix allows such portability...
- It supports the Open Look, Motif, Microsoft Windows, and Macintosh
- environments (but I'm not sure if the Mac version is quite finished yet).
-
- I received some helpful information by contacting them... here is what's
- printed on the title page of the report:
-
- Visix Software Inc.
- 11440 Commerce Park Drive
- Reston VA 22091
- 1-800-832-8668
-
- Let's see... I don't want to type in the whole thing (!) but one
- interesting portion is the list of standards that Galaxy supposedly
- conforms to (on the appropriate platforms):
-
- OSF/Motif Unicode POSIX P1003.1
- OPEN LOOK ISO 10646 PostScript
- CUA (Windows/PM) ANSI C X/Open NLS
- X Window ICCCM RTF Doc format
-
- From the looks of the above list it might seem that it is mainly
- a GUI spec but there are quite a lot of other useful components
- as well, such as network communication, inter-application communication,
- file system i/o, sound i/o, etc.
-
- I haven't purchased it yet though so I can't give a personal testimonial.
-
- Michael C. Grant
-