Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Path: utzoo!sq!ian
From: ian@sq.sq.com (Ian F. Darwin)
Subject: OPEN LOOK announced first (was: Re: Motif/Openlook, is there a trend?
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.211330.12990@sq.sq.com>
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Organization: None. I wish I were organized.
References: <1991Jan23.164403@ecovsb.ncsu.edu> <2977@sodium.ATT.COM>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 91 21:13:30 GMT
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> because OSF / UI
>GUI split happened not so long ago in front of our eyes
>(OSF announced development of Motif in December 88 and UI announced
>support for OL in February 89)

Yes, but UI didn't write the OL spec, Sun and AT&T did. And they announced
it in April, 1988, about 8 months before OSF's Dec'88 announcement of Motif.

The only reason I'm belaboring this historical near-trivia is that certain
OSF members are now sanctimoniously trotting out the "We need a *single* GUI
for X" line, when it's the OSF that is single-handedly (and open-handedly at
that) responsible for the fact that we have two.

Ian Darwin
ian@darwin.uucp

And to cut down the number of spurious and bogus followups, yes, Motif did
ship *something* a few months before either the XView OPEN LOOK toolkit or the
OLIT(Xt+) OPEN LOOK toolkit.