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From: casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif and the Seven Details
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Date: 5 Dec 89 22:09:50 GMT
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  I'm sure I shouldn't do this, but what the hey -- it's been a long time
since I last flamed Apollo ... :-)

| From: anon@dip.eecs.umich.edu.UUCP (Omar S. Juma)
| 
| To add more fuel to the fire, here's an off-the-cuff subjective rating
| of some user interface environments:
| 
| 	- AEGIS/DM (Apollo):			B

  I'm not sure I can respect anyone's opinion who gives Apollo's DM such
a high grade ... :-)

  I also have objections to Omar rating their file system as highly as he
did also, but not nearly so strongly.  It's biggest problem is simply the
company that controls it: refusing to extend the file system enough to
subsume the functionality of the UNIX file system.  But most of that
stems from Apollo's extreme anti-UNIX feelings.  We can only hope that
the buy out by HP will help this.  But I haven't had any experience with
HP, so who knows ...

  But Omar's feeling on Apollos are to be expected.  UMICH is Apollo
Country after all ...

  As for the rest of Omar's comments regarding User Interface Issues, I
agree wholeheartedly.  It definitely a Good Thing when User Interface
Support Software can be successfully generalized -- without making a
kitchen sink of it -- to offer User Interface Implementors, and more
importantly, Users more options.

Casey