Has anybody even been able to get the X-based version to build? I remember finding it on some Unix/Linux source code CD-ROM like 20 years ago, thinking it sounded useful and cool, and trying to build it on whatever Linux I was using on my hand-me-down 486 back in 1999/2000. Even back then, it didn't build for me.
Mike On Mon, Sep 7, 2020, 2:44 PM Chris Hanson via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 7, 2020, at 6:24 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > The description I have for AUIS (6.3.1) is: > > > > "AUIS (Andrew User Interface System) - compound document > > environment offering a word processor, mail/bulletin board > > reader/writer, drawing editor, spreadsheet, font editor, > > application builder, and many other facilities" > > > > Again, an application, not a windowing system per se. > > Yes, the Andrew environment implemented proper layering, so ATK was made > to work atop X and the applications (messages, ez, console, typescript, > etc.) came along. > > At Carnegie Mellon in the early 1990s, you could (with only a little work, > to use a console rather than graphical login) use either X or wm on some of > the campus workstations. On a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix, if you > weren’t going to run any X applications wm was *much* more responsive. I > wasn’t around when the clusters had Sun-3 or IBM RT hardware but I can > imagine the differences there were even more pronounced. (With wm, a > DECstation felt as much faster than a Mac II as it actually was…) > > Applications built against ATK could run atop either wm or X; I don’t know > if there were distinct builds of ATK or if the conditional logic was in the > framework itself, but the applications themselves worked just fine with > either since Andrew implemented a shared library mechanism. (Yes, even on > Ultrix.) > > The publicly-released Andrew distributions don’t include the wm code, only > the X version. I don’t know if they’ll actually build against the wm > headers and libraries if they’re present, or if by the time CMU was > releasing them publicly they had stripped that code out entirely. > > — Chris > > >
