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From: brett@visix.com (Brett Bourbin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Question on GUI's
Message-ID: <1991May16.163842.10695@visix.com>
Date: 16 May 91 16:38:42 GMT
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In article <110630045@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>, tay@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Mike Taylor) writes:
|> I'm not sure if it meets with your requirements, but if you intend
|> to research this issue thoroughly you should talk to an HP sales rep
|> to arrange a VUE demo.  HP VUE (Visual User Environment) comes with
|> the HP-UX.  One of the components of VUE is vuewm which is HP's enhanced
|> version of mwm.

Or you could look at one of the many PD window managers available for X
Window System.  They can be found on the expo site in the contrib area
along with being on the X11R4 MIT tape.

These window managers, mostly, do not suffer from the vuewm-type of 
problems, i.e., steal all system resources and require heaps of memory.

|> There is an active port of VUE to SUN underway by SAIC and should be 
|> complete in the next few weeks.  Negotiations for additional multivendor 
|> support are currently under way as well.

I guess that is good news?  8^)

|> Vuewm has my vote for the superior with the support of multiple workspaces
|> alone.

Funny, how hardware vendors love their own software that requires the end-
user to purchase for hardware (i.e. memory) from said vendor.  8^)

[note the simley at the end]

|> Surface:  Hewlett-Packard                 Internet:  tay@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com

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