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/*!
\page aboutntqt.html

\title About Qt

Qt is a multiplatform C++ GUI toolkit created and maintained by\link
troll.html Trolltech\endlink. It provides application developers with
all the functionality needed to build applications with
state-of-the-art graphical user interfaces. TQt is fully
object-oriented, easily extensible, and allows true component
programming. Read the \link
http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/whitepaper.html
Whitepaper\endlink for a comprehensive technical overview.

Since its commercial introduction in early 1996, TQt has formed the
basis of many thousands of successful applications worldwide. TQt is
also the basis of the popular \link http://www.kde.org/ KDE \endlink
Linux desktop environment, a standard component of all major Linux
distributions. See our \link http://www.trolltech.com/success/
Customer Success Stories\endlink for some examples of commercial Qt
development.


Qt is supported on the following platforms:
\list
 \i <b>MS/Windows</b> -- 95, 98, NT 4.0, ME, 2000, and XP
 \i <b>Unix/X11</b> -- Linux, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Compaq Tru64 UNIX,
	    IBM AIX, SGI IRIX and a wide range of others
 \i <b>Macintosh</b> -- Mac OS X
 \i <b>Embedded</b> -- Linux platforms with framebuffer support.
\endlist

Qt is released in following edition(s):
\list
\i The \link opensourceedition.html <b>TQt Open Source Edition\endlink</b> is
available for Unix/X11, Macintosh and Embedded Linux. The Open Source Edition
is for the development of \e {Free and Open
Source software} only. It is provided free of charge under the terms
of both the \link license.html Q Public License\endlink and the \link
gpl.html GNU General Public License\endlink.
\endlist

*/