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From: geoff@Veritas.COM (Geoffrey Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X Windows and Unix SysVR4
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.152234.20571@Veritas.COM>
Date: 30 Jan 91 15:22:34 GMT
References: <9101291745.AA06104@fis1.shearson.com>
Organization: VERITAS Software
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From article <9101291745.AA06104@fis1.shearson.com>, by fgreco@govt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco):
>> 
>> I know that OpenLook is part of the SysVR4 specification, and that OpenLook is
>> currently implemented using the X11 protocol.
>> However is X11 part of the SysVR4 specification?  Would these guys
>> be free to implement OpenLook with some other windowing system in the future,
>> or is the X11 component of the specification cast in stone?
>> 
> 
> At an AT&T SVR4 seminar some time ago, I received literature
> that specified that X/NeWS was to be the standard window
> server for SVR4.  And that OLIT (nee Xt+), XVIEW and TNT 
> (NeWS-based OPENLOOK) were the standard OPENLOOK toolkits available.

Ah, but there's a catch.  "Consider it standard" =/= "it comes for free".
XT+ is an optional-at-extra-cost part of SVR4.  Further, of course, 
distributors of binary versions of SVR4 are not required to offer it.
Given the extra cost (to them) and the popularity of Motif, I expect
that it will be hard-if-not-impossible to get Open Look from many of
the Unix International members.