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From: rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: GUI WARS!
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.003512.9980@dsd.es.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 00:35:12 GMT
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In article <22979@hydra.gatech.EDU>
	gt1111a@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox) writes:
>I for one am a little sick of products only written for particular windowing
>systems. I run a small net of about 15 machines. Plenty of stuff runs under
>regular MIT X. But my boss has just informed me of a few new products we are
>buying, one of which needs Open Windows, the other requiring Motif. Now tell
>me why I must go through the agony of trying to make 3 windowing packages
>share my disk?

Open Look and Motif are not "windowing systems".  X windows is a
windowing system, on top of which Open Look and Motif are layered.

They are just application libraries.  If you buy a binary package that
"needs" motif, the only thing it should really need to execute are the
applications defaults file, etc.  It won't need the libraries, include
files, etc, etc.  You only need those things if you are developing
code that uses the UI libraries.

							-- Rich
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