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From: klee@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: MOTIF
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Date: 28 Aug 89 20:36:13 GMT
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In article <64362@linus.UUCP>, samuels@chance.uucp (Michael Samuels) writes:
> Someone on the Net mentioned that MOTIF will be available
> soon with X-windows.  Can anyone tell me anything about
> "OSF MOTIF" - what it does, who makes it, etc.? 

Motif is a user interface programming environment.  It was developed by
the OSF and has been available to Open Software Foundation (OSF)
members for several months.  A public release should be out soon (if
not already).  The OSF includes many major computer manufacturers,
including DEC, IBM, HP, Apollo, and Microsoft.  Most of these were
demoing Motif at SIGGRAPH and should be shipping Motif with their
hardware in the future.

The current implementation of Motif is based on the X Window System.
It includes a window manager, widget set, enhanced intrinsics, and
run-time user interface language.  The look and feel is similar to
Microsoft Presentation Manager.  The programming interface is similar
to DECwindows and the X Toolkit.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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