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From a historical-software/UI perspective, I'm curious what that Motif software looks like, and how, er, findable it is. Studying old systems that have fallen
by exikyut 9y ago
From a historical-software/UI perspective, I'm curious what that Motif software looks like, and how, er, findable it is.
Studying old systems that have fallen by the wayside can often be instructive.
- pjmlp 9y agoStill found on Aix and HP-UX systems, which are the surviving ones. Solaris dropped it, and all other commercial big iron UNIXes are dead. You can get some screenshots here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
- exikyut 9y agoWoops, didn't notice this till now. I wasn't referring to Motif itself, rather the debugger programs. Contemporary UIs are always interesting to study! It's awesome that Motif and CDE are finally open source though.