Visual User Environment (VUE or HP VUE) is a discontinued

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developed by

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, intended for use on

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s. VUE is based on the Motif widget toolkit and targets the

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. VUE is a precursor to

Common Desktop Environment The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS, based on the Motif widget toolkit. It was part of the UNIX 98 Workstation Product Standard, and was for a long time the Unix desktop associated with commercia ...

(CDE), which was also based on Motif.

History

Work began on VUE in 1988 at

Apollo Computer Apollo Computer Inc., founded in 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, by William Poduska (a founder of Prime Computer) and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems, Apollo wa ...

for use with

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, as an alternative to Apollo's standard DM and wmgr. Shortly later, HP acquired Apollo, where they released the first version of VUE for Domain/OS, and then went on to modify VUE for use with

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. * VUE 1.0 – Released with

SR10.4 * VUE 1.1 * VUE 2.0 – Released for

* VUE 2.0.1 * VUE 3.0 – Released with

9.0 in 1992 According to an article published in the ''Hewlett-Packard Journal'', the look and feel of HP-VUE was used when developing the Common Desktop Environment (CDE): After its release, HP endorsed CDE as the new standard desktop for Unix, and provided documentation and software for migrating VUE customizations to CDE.

References

External links

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Introduction to HP VUE

HP Vue and CDE: Differences Between the Interfaces
(Purdue University) {{X desktop environments and window managers HP software Desktop environments Software that uses Motif (software) X window managers

History

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