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Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:8058 comp.os.linux.misc:11353 comp.os.386bsd.apps:1072 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!jake.esu.edu!marx.esu.edu!not-for-mail From: kender@esu.edu (Daniel Garcia) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Wine status March 11, 1994 Date: 24 Mar 1994 14:51:12 -0500 Organization: East Stroudsburg University Lines: 30 Message-ID: <2msqvh$61a@marx.esu.edu> References: <1994Mar19.154703.30843@amscons.amscons.com> <2mfun0$j4d@universe.digex.net> <CMzqCK.MMC@boulder.parcplace.com> <2mlbbk$9a3@mojo.eng.umd.edu> Reply-To: kender@esu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: marx.esu.edu Slaving away in a dark room, chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Charles B. Robey) produced: >Warner Losh (imp@boulder.parcplace.com) wrote: > >Oh, for pete's sake. Motif is just one standard among many. It's not >the anything. If they wanted it to be the real standard, they'd have >made it public. What about fvwm, or FWF, or any of the other Umm - pardon me - but fvwm is a __WINDOW_MANAGER__ _not_ an API! >APIs. What about non-X? That really sounds terribly one-sided. >Motif is great, but not THE standard. Under Un*x, motif _is_ the standard, at least under commercial unix's. Almost all (if not all) commercial unix's that sell X packages include motif in them. And, it's possible to get motif for under $200 for the freeware unixes as well, and people are working on freeware implimentations of the Motif API. Also - non-unix software DOES use motif. Geo-work's GUI is loosely based on the motif GUI spec - it's a shame that geo-works, which IMHO was MUCH better than ms-windows ever was (or ever will be?) was swamped out by ms-windows. D -- Ethernet is| Daniel Garcia - ATP Group - Fibre Channel |NetSurfingFibre for Sissies| Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Labs - Livermore, CA |RunningLightRid disclaimer.| dgarcia@cohl.llnl.gov <=-email-=> kender@esu.edu |ingExplorer... Fibre Channel - Unix - TCP/IP - Music - MIDI - Biking - Networking - Reading