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From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
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Subject: Re: UIMS recs and suggestions wanted
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Date: 5 Oct 90 02:14:24 GMT
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<sorry about the late reply -- I've been out of town for a month... and I'm
now catching up on the copious verbiage on this list>

In article <16590@unix.SRI.COM> ric@ace.sri.com (Richard Steinberger) writes:
>	About a week ago I asked people for some suggestions and
>recommendations about tools and products that might be used to help
>design GUIs.  (I've since been told that such tools are called
>UIMS: User Interface Management Systems).

Actually, almost none of the tools you mention are UIMS's. The ones you
mention are mostly "builders" and other forms of interactive user interface
development tools... some of the tools have what might be considered a UIMS
component -- a thin language layer that ties UI dynamics to application
state.

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	    Niels Mayer -- hplabs!mayer -- mayer@hplabs.hp.com
		  Human-Computer Interaction Department
		       Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
			      Palo Alto, CA.
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