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From: lantz@Apple.COM (Bob Lantz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Where does UNIX fit in a graphically-based computer world?
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Date: 6 Sep 90 18:57:22 GMT
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dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:

>Apple's A/UX is supposed to provide a user-friendly front-end to UNIX,
>but only on hardware well out of my price range.

A/UX will run on a 4 meg SE/30 with an 80 meg hard drive; or
a Mac II (w/pmmu), IIx, cx or ci; but not a Plus, SE or Portable -
sorry, no mmu on those machines!

>The world is also going to graphical interfaces.  It's just a matter
>of putting one onto UNIX.  There are several available, but the one
>called X is clearly winning out.

As you mentioned later on in your posting,
X isn't a user interface, but a windowing platform on which a variety
of user interfaces (e.g. Motif, Open Look, DecWindows) can be implemented.

>-- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com)
>-- Unisys Corp. / Paoli Research Center / PO Box 517 / Paoli PA  19301

Bob