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Sun provided a toolkit for X called XView, with an API similar to that of SunView, simplifying the transition for developers between the two environments. Sun later announced its migration to the GNOME desktop environment from CDE , marking the end of Sun's 20-year-plus history of using the SunView/DeskSet code base.
Timeline showing releases of Windows for personal computers and servers. Microsoft Windows is a computer operating system developed by Microsoft.It was first launched in 1985 as a graphical operating system built on MS-DOS.
OPEN LOOK was created at a time when there was little or no standardization in Unix graphical user interfaces (GUIs); the X Window System was emerging as the likely de facto standard for Unix graphical displays, but its designers had deliberately chosen not to specify any look and feel guidelines, leaving this up to application and window manager developers.
OpenWindows is a discontinued desktop environment for Sun Microsystems workstations which combined a display server supporting the X Window System protocol, the XView and OLIT toolkits, the OPEN LOOK Window Manager (), and the DeskSet productivity tools; earlier versions of OpenWindows also supported the NeWS protocol.
This is a list of software that provides an alternative graphical user interface for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The technical term for this interface is a shell. Windows' standard user interface is the Windows shell; Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1x have a different shell, called Program Manager. The programs in this list do not restyle ...
Looking Glass was first developed by Hideya Kawahara, a Sun programmer who wrote it in his spare time on a Linux laptop. After demonstrating an early version to Sun executives, he was assigned to it full-time with a dedicated team and open sourced the project. [4] It was demonstrated by Jonathan Schwartz at LinuxWorld Expo 2003 in San Francisco ...
2007: 2008: Windows: ... Windows: Simple GUI driven interface ... Linux, Windows, Mac, FreeBSD, Sun Solaris: Interactive and batch 2D data file plotting
The Windows environment can be any OS that supports RDP. In 2007, Sun and UK company Thruput integrated the Sun Ray 2FS with 28" (2048 × 2048), 30" (2560 × 1600) and 56" (3840 × 2160) displays; in 2008 they trialed an external graphics accelerator that enables the Sun Ray to be used with any high resolution display.