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Is that... a Tcl/Tk app being run in GNOME?
by damncabbage 14y ago
Is that... a Tcl/Tk app being run in GNOME?
- hartror 14y agoThat was my thought as well as I was watching the coverage. Not surprising given there are a lot of old school engineers at NASA/JPL.
- mbell 14y agoHere is the answer, it was written quite a while ago judging by the missions it has been used on: http://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/5697 http://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/5697
- mbell 14y agoPretty sure the GUI toolkit is Motif, window borders do look like gnome though.
- raverbashing 14y agoMaybe the legendary Xv they used on Sojourney? (by the photo looks like something like it, stil...)
- duskwuff 14y agoPhoto says it's xvd. Some sort of custom tool: http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/vicar/vicar300/html/vichelp/xvd.html http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/vicar/vicar300/html/vichelp/xvd...
- sagarun 14y agoYes GNOME with metacity window manager https://twitter.com/jdub/status/232350347404918784 https://twitter.com/jdub/status/232350347404918784
- sliverstorm 14y agoHey, if it does the job... The CPU on the Rover is from 2001. Everything has to work, so I rarely begrudge them somewhat dated tech.
- damncabbage 14y agoI'm not begrudging anything, I'm just surprised I could recognize any of what they're using. :)
- davidw 14y agoHere's the article about Tcl and Pathfinder: http://wfr.tcl.tk/fichiers/pub/Tcl_on_Pathfinder.pdf http://wfr.tcl.tk/fichiers/pub/Tcl_on_Pathfinder.pdf