Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!netnews.srv.cs.cmu.edu!gerry From: gerry@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows 3 criticism Message-ID: Date: 27 Sep 90 15:32:10 GMT References: <3401@gmdzi.gmd.de> Sender: netnews@cs.cmu.edu (USENET News Group Software) Reply-To: gerry@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) Organization: Field Robotics Center, CMU Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de's message of 26 Sep 90 21:57:14 GMT In article <3401@gmdzi.gmd.de> strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes: What do you think about X-Windows, Motif and such? I guess I have not yet made myself clear, and I apologize. Windows is okay because you can fire up a DOS shell from within Windows, but this is NOT the paradigm that the folks at MS are envisioning. They want everyone to use Windows applications and to never to see C>. This is the case with the Mac, and this is what I am so very afraid of. I don't want my user-extensible, infinitely flexible interface taken away because GUI's are the "in thing" which will solve every- ones computer problems. To answer you question, X is okay because you normally use it to fire up shell windows. I am still using SunView and can not imagine working on a system without multiple windows. -- gerry roston, field robotics center robotics institute, carnegie mellon university pittsburgh, pennsylvania, 15213 (412) 268-6557 gerry@cs.cmu.edu