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From: mg@ (Mike Gigante)
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Subject: Re: Motif & GL
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Date: 22 Dec 90 20:36:01 GMT
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msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) writes:

>Incidentally I recommend you not use the OSF/Motif toolkit.  It's a pig.
>Currently the minimum application size in 1 megabyte and it takes 5 seconds
>for the app. to start up.  We will do our best to improve those figures
>before 4.0 is released but it's largely out of our control.

Just to clarify this:

Are you saying that this is an interim problem that is likely to
dissapear? Or are you saying it is inherent in OSF/Motif?

Mike Gigante
RMIT