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From: jjf@hjuxa.UUCP (FRANEY)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: OSF/Motif vs. NeWS vs. SUN/Open Windows vs. ?
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Date: 17 Jan 90 21:33:34 GMT
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In article <130335@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> anantha%ravi@Sun.COM (Anantha Srirama) writes:
><deletion>Motif may be the next generation of vapor-
>ware.  For all practical purposes OSF is melting away just like US Memories.
>Major papers/publications/journals have been talking about this for a couple

According to January 1990 BYTE (p 286)  OSF Motif deserves notice as much
as EISA, and the 80486.  In the one third page write up, BYTE says:

	Motif is attractive and useful, and it runs on any X window base.
	It furnishes a consisten user interface acros operating system
	by offering a Presentation Manager look and the Macintosh intuitive
	easy of operating on UNIX and VMS machines. ....  Given the increased
	interest in UNIX as an operatins system for high performance
	computing, we consider Motif an achievement worthy of recognition.

According to BYTE, Motif is a combination of technology from HP, Microsoft
and DEC.  Motif has been released to OSF members and SCO is now shipping a
product.

John Franey