I remember seeing the VAXstation GUI bit in late 88 or so in grad school. It was weird interfacing Fortran and C calls back then. I forgot the name of the int

I remember seeing the VAXstation GUI bit in late 88 or so in grad school. It was weird interfacing Fortran and C calls back then. I forgot the name of the interface, but I remember that creating a window to start working in was a very long function call in Fortran. Basically it opened an X window in the framework. You then set up a canvas and did more operations on it. In 1990, I switched over to an SGI Irix machine, and graphics became much easier. We had a molecular dynamics viewer called "shaker" that was written in Irix GL at the time. Hard to use, and my thesis advisor and I didn't have SGIs in our office. So, I wrote my own version using Watcom Fortran(!) and called it "mover". My thesis advisor shook her head at that ... as our visualization was with "mover" and "shaker".