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From: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Complaints about Amiga OS 2.0
Summary: Is XWindows REALLY a GUI?
Keywords: 2.0 XWindows GUI
Message-ID: <32433@auc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 90 05:04:54 GMT
References: <20526@snow-white.udel.EDU| <32420@auc.UUCP> <1886@corpane.UUCP>
Reply-To: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Organization: Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, Ga.
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In article <1886@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
|rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks) writes:
||Wow!  With just windows and a menu you have a GUI!?!?  I'd better call the
||folks at MIT, and tell them that X Windows IS a GUI!  :-)
|
|er, Xwindows ***IS*** a GUI, buddy. Icons, menus, the whole shmear.

That's what I thought at first, until I kept hearing (and hearing and hearing)
that X Windows is not a GUI, but something on which a GUI can be
based.  That's why we have such things like Motif, DECwindows, etc.

|Plus it multi-tasks, unlike workbench

I think a better comparison would be to compare XWindows to Intuition.
DECwindows, for example, is an interface that sits on top of Xwindows,
just as Workbench is an interface that sits on top of Intuition.

|Plus it multi-tasks, unlike workbench (I know the programs run from 
|workbench multi-task but WB doesn't. That's what the little sleepy cloud is
|for. It means workbench is busy and can't do anything else till it gets 
|finished.)

Yes, I've even complained about that many times.
That will be fixed in 2.0.

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I'm temporarily losing access to the net, so send any personal replies
to /dev/null.

Hopefully, when I come back (in August), I'll be hearing people criticizing
the Amiga 3500!  :-)  You know, the new model with the 25MHz 68040 board in
the CPU slot...  :-)

-- 
"We may have come over here in different ships,
 but we're all in the same boat now."   --   Jesse Jackson                   //
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Rodney Ricks,   Morehouse College                                        \/