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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Macintosh vs. X windows
Message-ID: <1991Feb3.071036.12701@visix.com>
Date: 3 Feb 91 07:10:36 GMT
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In article <1991PMSat.02.14347@dircon.co.uk> uad1077@dircon.co.uk
(Ian Kemmish) writes:
>Also, much effort is wasted on
>fighting the toolkit (this may be implementation rather than design bugs
>in the version of Motif I was using, but it's still relevant to the
>choice of whether to use it in future!).

The common problem I've seen with most X toolkits is that they contain
a lot of preconceptions about How Every Application Shall Be Structured,
and tend to have very narrow APIs.  The Mac, whatever faults it may have,
has a very broad and general API.

There is, of course, no reason that a broad API can't be built on top
of X--it's just that there are very few of them around, and even fewer
are for sale to the public.

Disclaimer: We have built such a toolkit, and we will be selling it this
	    summer.  I am therefore biased on this issue.
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