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From: is813cs@pyr.gatech.EDU (Cris Simpson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Xwindows & PM (OS/2)
Message-ID: <9658@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 1 Dec 89 14:00:14 GMT
References: <9604@pyr.gatech.EDU> <556@s5.Morgan.COM>
Reply-To: is813cs@pyr.gatech.edu (Cris Simpson)
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In article <556@s5.Morgan.COM> jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:
>Cris Simpson <is813cs@pyr.gatech.edu> writes:
>
>	PM will be the basis for the OSF interface.  It will also use
>	the DECwindows API [1].
>
>Hmmm.  This is Slightly misleading (and perhaps out of date)
>information.  The PM GUI has seven (at last count) differences from
>Motif, the OSF selection.  Examples include the "little box/big box"
  [some stuff deleted] 
 
 

	I will defer to those with more knowledge on the subject.  As
a followup to original message, I mentioned a column by Ross Greenberg
in _Unix Today!_.  In the Oct 30 issue, Greenberg (..uunet!utoday!greenber)
pretty much blasts MS for some of their decisions on PM/X.
 
 

cris

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Cris Simpson                            |   
Computer Engineer                       |  No, No!  Not THOSE chains! 
VA Rehab R&D Center                     |    -K. Marx
Atlanta,GA      is813cs@pyr.gatech.edu  |