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From: esg@sodium.ATT.COM (Edward Gokhman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OPEN LOOK announced first (was: Re: Motif/Openlook, is there a trend?
Message-ID: <3008@sodium.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Feb 91 15:17:02 GMT
References: <5858@auspex.auspex.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lincroft, NJ
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From article <5858@auspex.auspex.com>, by guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris):
> 
> 1) I don't know to what extent this is *intrinsic* to OPEN LOOK - i.e.,
>    I don't know how much effort would be involved in making a
>    Motif-compliant XView,
> <...>
> 2) I saw a claim somewhere that there exists, or will soon exist, a tool
>    to convert SunView applications to Motif-Xt (or "-lXm", if you will)
You still typically choose X11/NeWS to migrate, so that you can run
SunView applications as is for a while. That is how Sun preserves the
installed base of customers. In the future I suspect a lot of
neat desktop publishing applications will be NeWS-based, which
would keep the interest to Sun's software base going. --Ed