DECwindows

DEC's windowing environment based on the X Window System.

DECwindows

Digital's windowing architecture, based on X Window, Version 11. It was compatible with X Window while adding a variety of enhancements.

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User Interface Language

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DEC was pushing their "PDP" series of minis as being able to connect to PCs through "DECwindows" software, pictured below.

"Mini" breakthroughs: the booming minicomputer market and groundbreaking documentation tools dominated the headlines two decades ago

She has worked on such products as DECwindows Motif, POSIX Threads, and Fortran.

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Phase II extends All-in-One to a client-server architecture and provides support for a broad range of desktop clients, including MS-DOS, OS/2 and Macintosh personal computers, DECwindows VMS and UNIX workstation, Digital video terminals and IBM 3270 devices.

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To address the problems of information islands and user-interface overload, software vendors must ensure that all their programs adhere to one user interface, and adhere as much as possible to established file-format and user-interface standards, such as DECwindows and MS-DOS Windows.

The integrated scientific desktop in a distributed computing environment

It also works with all available PLC software packages, Digital Equipment's DECwindows via plug-in Ethernet controllers, and DECwindows Display Facility software.

PCs tackle industrial applications

Digital's DECwindows, Hewlett-Packard's New Wave, and Apollo's Open Dialogue are proprietary versions of the X-Window System that include both the display software and associated programming kit.