Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!midway!zaphod!francis From: francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: NuTek Mac Clones Message-ID: Date: 13 Feb 91 03:57:01 GMT References: <97@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM> <1991Feb12.174418.21185@convex.com> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 28 In-Reply-To: ewright@convex.com's message of 12 Feb 91 17:44:18 GMT In article <1991Feb12.174418.21185@convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes: In article <97@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM> piper@s5000.RSVL.UNISYS.COM (Piper Keairnes) writes: [NuTek has created a Mac clone] To avoid Apple copyright >infringements they've worked in a "clean-room" and slapped on a Motif >interface. By the picture shown, it looks like the menu bars for the >applications will reside within the application's window as opposed to >being resident at the top of the screen. >Comments, questions, difficulties, confusions? I wonder how compatible this is going to be with actual Mac applications. Will the average Mac window have room for all those menus? What about all the programs that use custom window definitions (WDEFs)? Ugh! Motif is pretty ugly, as far as I'm concerned. Main question is still compatibility, of course. How do they deal with apps that want (gasp!) TWO windows? Or apps that currently have no windows open? Bleah. -- /=============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \=============================================================================/