[kabdib]

Yeah, pretty much everyone and his brother had a framework:

- Apple, MacApp

- Microsoft: MFC, and others

- Borland: I forget what they called their stuff

- Anyone remember Taligent? Apple, HP and IBM, all getting together in a money-burning party...

- NeXT / Apple revival: NextStep / OpenStep, etc.

- Any number of minor players, including folks with Honest to Goodness Smalltalk implementations (none of which have survived to this day, I believe)

- Java stuff that I have mercifully forgotten

... they were nearly all crazy, and nothing was portable. So much for the promise of OOP :-)