Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!ncar!groucho!davis
From: davis@groucho.ucar.edu (Glenn P. Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: SIGGRAPH Panel- "Operating Systems and Graphical User Interfaces"
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Date: 7 Aug 89 20:59:00 GMT
Reply-To: davis@unidata.UCAR.EDU (Glenn P. Davis)
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I happened to attend a panel disscussion in Boston last week titled above.

The panelists were:

	Larry Tesler, Apple Computer
	Martin Dunsmir, Microsoft
	Some fellow from IBM
	Bud Tribble, NeXT

(apologies for names I got wrong, misspelled, or omitted. The panel composition
was not as printed in the program.)

The session promised to be interesting (I hoped to hear these guys duke it
out) as promised: " Panelists ... address their offerings and seek to justify
their technology as the standard that developers should embrace as the next
generation of computer graphics interfaces."

My major impressions:

	Everybody sez graphical user interfaces are the way to go.

	Users and the advanced applications of the 90's need multitasking.

	Programmer productivity is important -> programmatic access to UI
	via 'object oriented' interfaces.

	Standard networking for heterogeneos environments.

The amusing thing was that apple, microsoft and ibm are saying, "Yep, just
go with us, we'll have all of the above 'real soon now'. But NeXT has already
got it.

-glenn