Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bonnie.concordia.ca!cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA!cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA!aspgpas From: aspgpas@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Peter Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Why OpenWindows instead of Motif ? Message-ID: <1991Feb15.235403.12606@cid.aes.doe.CA> Date: 15 Feb 91 23:54:03 GMT References: <1991Feb14.211546.21222@ugle.unit.no> Sender: @cid.aes.doe.CA Reply-To: aspgpas@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Peter Silva) Organization: Environment Canada Lines: 24 I don't know about Commodore specifically. But For those of you who are unitiated in the UNIX standards wars... There are two camps OSF -- Open Software Foundation Big Blue, HP, Apollo, etc... love this. Kernel based on Mach (from CMU), Motif GUI. They call their unix OSF-x (starting at 1) Unix International AT&T, Sun, and other hangers on. Kernel is SVR4, GUI is Open Look. they call they unix UNIX System V Release x (starting at 4) OSF-1 has only been available to developers for a couple of months, while SVR4 has been around for a good 2 years. It is more stable, etc... Commodore is just following the "standards" of the Unix International group. It seems to be the appropriate thing to do. -- Peter Silva OS Support psilva@cid.aes.doe.ca Dorval Computing Centre (514) 421-4692 Atmospheric Environment Service