Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!srcsip!jhereg!mark From: mark@Jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Problems with the NeXT System (v1.0) Message-ID: <1990Mar20.055006.14981@Jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG> Date: 20 Mar 90 05:50:06 GMT References: Organization: Open Systems Architects, Inc., Mpls, MN Lines: 19 In article J Greely writes: >I have a feeling that what you *really* want is a completely >customizable window system, that starts out looking like it does now, >but can be easily (and automatically) tweaked into Motif or a Mac, or >anything else the users' fertile minds can think of. I don't think >this will come out of a computer manufacturer (not usefully, anyway). Something an awful lot like this has already been designed and developed by a computer manufacturer. It's very interesting and shows a level of forethought which is not very common among computer vendors these days. The current implementation is useable and flexible and rather unique. If you think about it, it rather solves a number of problems which haved faced the GUI marketplace of late. -- Mark H. Colburn If you don't make money off of it, Open Systems Architects, Inc. it had better be either a religious mark@Minnetech.MN.ORG experience or a hobby. - Lance Cooper