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Article #151Re: OSF/Motif vs. NeWS vs. SUN/Open Windows vs. ?
From: FRANEY
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1990 21:33
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1990 21:33
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In article <130335@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> anantha%ravi@Sun.COM (Anantha Srirama) writes: ><deletion>Motif may be the next generation of vapor- >ware. For all practical purposes OSF is melting away just like US Memories. >Major papers/publications/journals have been talking about this for a couple According to January 1990 BYTE (p 286) OSF Motif deserves notice as much as EISA, and the 80486. In the one third page write up, BYTE says: Motif is attractive and useful, and it runs on any X window base. It furnishes a consisten user interface acros operating system by offering a Presentation Manager look and the Macintosh intuitive easy of operating on UNIX and VMS machines. .... Given the increased interest in UNIX as an operatins system for high performance computing, we consider Motif an achievement worthy of recognition. According to BYTE, Motif is a combination of technology from HP, Microsoft and DEC. Motif has been released to OSF members and SCO is now shipping a product. John Franey
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!rutgers!hjuxa!jjf From: jjf@hjuxa.UUCP (FRANEY) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: OSF/Motif vs. NeWS vs. SUN/Open Windows vs. ? Message-ID: <1752@hjuxa.UUCP> Date: 17 Jan 90 21:33:34 GMT References: <15521@well.UUCP> <1504@ole.UUCP> <130335@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Jan17.033134.4139@uncecs.edu> Organization: Digital Equipment Corp, Manalapan NJ Lines: 22 In-reply-to: uccjcm@uncecs.edu's message of 17 Jan 90 03:31:34 GMT