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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:13705 comp.os.os2.misc:92624 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:24663 comp.os.386bsd.misc:2404 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.unix.misc,comp.windows.x.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!boulder!cnsnews!ucsu.Colorado.EDU!cairnss From: cairnss@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Queenie) Subject: Re: OpenStep for $100 Message-ID: <cairnss.766974778@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Sender: usenet@cnsnews.Colorado.EDU (Net News Administrator) Nntp-Posting-Host: ucsu.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder References: <2op5g8$1u0@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <cairnss.766797259@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <CoKBG4.GMF@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 00:32:58 GMT Lines: 20 tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) writes: >A smart person may ask, "If the GUI/interface builder is so great, then why >doesn't NeXT pull that off the OS and make it the product?". OpenStep is the >first attempt to make the interface a widely used standard like X. It is >possible in the future that NeXT will sell the interface builder for other >GUIs (don't expect them to ever give this one out free). >--mark. NextStep also faces the X standard. I don't see many applications which are designed to use all of the features of NextStep, Other than Mathematica, et c. So you are left with the X emulation to run X applications on your overpriced OS. Any machine running X would do as much, lacking the glorified desktop GUI. -- You too Brutus?