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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: UIMX, 68040, et. al....
Keywords: Earth calling HP, come in HP!?!
Message-ID: <36@gauss.mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 90 04:18:04 GMT
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore
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Hey, ho, it's that time of year again, and the capital budget
fights are on again.  Time to see if vendor promises are real
or vapor, check the list twice, and all that sort of stuff...

Talking of vapor... :-)

Has anyone heard when the Motif application builder UIMX will
finally see the light of day?  One gets tired arguing Open Look
vs Motif, with the Sunnites using their icon-based file browser,
mail tool, xdbx debugger, and giga-bytes of free PD software, when
all we HPites get is an HPterm and ELM.   Gak!  Our solution so
far has been one or two HPs running Motif to all the Sun Sparcs
on the net.  The Open Look programs look pretty good with MOTIF
frames :-)  Sigh...

Has anyone seen/got any of the MUCHO-HERALDED MULTI-MEDIA-EVENT-ANNOUNCED
68040 processors?  Is this the "Teddy Ruxpin" of computers, where you've
heard of them on the news, but can never find them on the shelves?  

NCS is better than RPC, but who can afford/justify 57 licences for
NCS when RPC comes with the operating system?  What USES NCS anyway?

--POOF!--  Oops, reality check...

Anyway, this is one HP fanatic who is MIGHTY TIRED!  That SGI over
there looks might cute, Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket...
And, it does 3D rotations with an X server of more than 4 colors... :-)

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