On the subject of the ubiquitous desktop manager MIPS Computer Systems Inc chief executive Bob Miller told our sister paper Unigram.X last week that the MIPS Special Interest Group in the Advanced Computing Environment, formerly the Apache Group, is working on an Application Binary Interface that will allow vendors to implement either IXI Ltd’s X.desktop or Visix Software Inc’s rival Looking Glass manager on their ACE Unix systems – no room here for Hewlett-Packard’s Visual User Environment though: I’m very optimistic that we can do an ABI for IXI and Visix; however I’m not confident that we can do it for IXI, Visix and VUE though, he commented.
