On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Brian Brophy wrote:
> Motif is a proprietary graphics API for Unix.
> ^^^\
> what is an API??(I know what
> proprietary means)
API = Application Programming Interface, a set of function calls.
>
> It's also what PC/GEOS used.
> ^^^^ I remember that GEOS was used/is used? on
> internet phones/early wireless hand-helds
GEOS was the Graphical Environment Operating System used on
the Commodore 64 (it was on something before that, but I forget
what) developed at Berkeley. Then it was ported to x86 and
became PC/GEOS, and somewhere in there, the name was changed
to GeoWorks. When it was clear that Micro$oft's monopolistic
practices left them without a market, they abandoned the desktop
to concentrate on embedded devices, and sold their desktop software
to New Deal. I assume they're still using Motif for their desktop
as well.
> What is QT??? before I deleted them (: I noticed qtfax, qtblah qtetc. on
> some Win3.1 files in my old AT _ What were these "qt" files ??
I don't know what they were on Win3.1, but in this context, QT
is the set of libraries that KDE is built on.
- Steve
