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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Is Motif on the RS6000 "normal" ?
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.214137.25842@world.std.com>
Date: 1 Oct 90 21:41:37 GMT
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Organization: Saber Software
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friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Steve Friedl) writes:
>Our experience
>with IBM in the past is that they have their own way of doing
>things, the rest of the world notwithstanding.  The RS6000 seems
>to be in a much more mainstream direction, but I wanted to find
>out from the net.wizards at large whether their version was
>reasonable.  If we develop an application using their particular
>widget set, do we stand a fighting chance of making it run on
>another platform with Motif?

I'd say "yes".  My experience shows that in most respects the Motif
stuff on the rios is plain-vanilla, although somewhat dated.

Now if they'd just fix the X server....

jim frost
saber software
jimf@saber.com