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SoundChaser:
Also... should someone manage to build the runtime, these could be use to test the end result :-)

https://github.com/OS2World/DEV-SAMPLES-IBM_OpenDoc

Martin Iturbide:
Thanks for the feedback SoundChaser.

Sean Casey:
I recall speaking with Carla Hanzlik, Sundial Systems, regarding Taligent and OpenDoc's People, Places, and Things metaphor.  Sundial Systems had a lot of time invested in Taligent and it was believed Relish version 3 would incorporate its technology.   

A variety of interconnected remote users, collaborative work spaces, data and objects disbursed throughout a network. Developers would write helper components that operate on different types of data instead of writing full applications.  OpenDoc would be the common component interchange glue.  This would eliminate monolithic applications and software suites.  Essentially, someone can assemble their own software suite using individual components that are part of the operating environment.

I believe the OpenDoc framework was developed by an alliance with Apple, IBM, and Motorola to counter Microsoft's growing dominance.  HP also had some ownership and contributed IP.  While Apple was developing their own OS utilizing OpenDoc, IBM had planned to use the framework within its Workplace OS and planned a Taligent personality module.

SoundChaser:
A fair chunk of the Taligent C++ coding style ended up in the Open Class framework in VAC++4 which unfortunately is too much an esoteric environment to work with. I wonder if anyone tried to compile these modules with another compiler than IBM xlc (say MSFT cl.exe) which would have given a second life to that otherwise very interesting tech.

The book Taligent's guide to designing programs : well-mannered object-oriented design in C++ remains an excellent book.

Lars:
1) the Warp4 Toolkit (NOT the Warp 4.5 toolkit) came with a whole OpenDoc subdirectory, including all documentation (in HTML format)
2) there existed OpenDoc Version 1.2, multiple self-extracting installation executables. It is likely the same stuff as is contained in:
http://www.hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/dev/tools/toolkits/OpenDoc_1-2.zip
and it can also be found here:
https://www.adofai.gg/HOBBES/dev/opendoc/

I have both on CD-ROM.

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