The future

Post #229,196 by jake123 10/11/05 7:32:45 PM Reply	The future imho is implementing the WPS to run under X, or perhaps some other graphical system like X. Done right, it could kick serious ass. It's not the tech itself, it's the ideas behind the tech that make it so good... it would be a shame to see some of those ideas disappear. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #229,202 by Another Scott 10/11/05 7:45:46 PM Reply	People have been talking about it since 1992. Remember that the Workplace Shell on OS/2 was supposed to be the first piece of IBM's grand vision of having the WPS everywhere (even DOS, though that was dropped as it was too memory intensive, IIRC.). There was a [link\|http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/windows/wpsfw151.zip\|WPS for Win16] that was pretty neat (as a concept, but limited), but the WPS never went beyond OS/2 and Win16. At least not publicly. I have to think that IBM has a WPS for Unix in a drawer somewhere, or had someone write it under contract and that vendor has it in a drawer somewhere. The fact that there hasn't been an Open Source work-alike in all these many years tells me that it's not a simple problem. :-( Is anyone working on it? I don't see anything at [link\|http://www.netlabs.org\|http://www.netlabs.org] Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #229,205 by jake123 10/11/05 7:55:17 PM Reply	Yes, definitely not a simple problem In a way, you could say that it's why I'm going to school. OTOH, there are certain things that exist now that make it way easier than it was say ten years ago, or even five years ago. Still, it's definitely not a simple problem. OTOH, it's certainly far from an intractable one. I think part of the reason people haven't produced it is that most programmers (and esp. nix programmers of the snooty variety) have had no exposure to it. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------

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