From: Paul Jakma (Paul.Jakma at domain Digital.com)
Date: Wed 04 Aug 1999 - 11:50:29 IST
> You're probably thinking of olvwm,
i am yes.
> and virtual version of olwm. Olwm
> was (and is, OpenWindows is still available in Solaris 7) supplied as
> standard by Sun. Olvwm was (I believe) written by a third party.
>
olvwm is a direct descendant of olwm i think. the home ftp site is x.org, so
(speculating here) maybe sun donated olwm to the X consortium, and hence
olvwm.
> IMHO a lot of people will have found it quite convenient that all
> those Unix variants have a Common Desktop Environment.
>
true of course. but standardising on something nicer might have been an
idea.
anyway.. enough of that.
regards,
paul.
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