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From: tsang@ISI.COM (Kam C. Tsang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: SCO Motif 1.0 problems (SCO has no plans to fix these)
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Date: 29 May 91 20:19:01 GMT
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> Recipe 7.  Do not use Motif for real time applications.  In fact
> I have serious misgivings about the use of GUIs in a real time 
> application: they suck cpu cycles and memory like there's nothing
> else to do and provide very little more than a nice warm fuzzy
> feeling.

Are you complaining about Motif or GUI with event loops in general?
There are different ways to get events.  You may have to use the ones
that don't suck up cpu time.

Just curious.

-kam

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