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Article #472Re: Macintosh vs. X windows
From: Amanda Walker
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 1991 07:10
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 1991 07:10
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In article <1991PMSat.02.14347@dircon.co.uk> uad1077@dircon.co.uk (Ian Kemmish) writes: >Also, much effort is wasted on >fighting the toolkit (this may be implementation rather than design bugs >in the version of Motif I was using, but it's still relevant to the >choice of whether to use it in future!). The common problem I've seen with most X toolkits is that they contain a lot of preconceptions about How Every Application Shall Be Structured, and tend to have very narrow APIs. The Mac, whatever faults it may have, has a very broad and general API. There is, of course, no reason that a broad API can't be built on top of X--it's just that there are very few of them around, and even fewer are for sale to the public. Disclaimer: We have built such a toolkit, and we will be selling it this summer. I am therefore biased on this issue. -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Toolkit Team Leader ...!uunet!visix!amanda Visix Software Inc. +1 800 832 8668 -- "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him march to the music he hears, be it however measured or far away." --Henry David Thoreau
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!visix!amanda From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Macintosh vs. X windows Message-ID: <1991Feb3.071036.12701@visix.com> Date: 3 Feb 91 07:10:36 GMT References: <1991Jan28.173654.10133@cs.utk.edu> <1991Jan31.021859.21850@NCoast.ORG> <1991PMSat.02.14347@dircon.co.uk> Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 26