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From: peterr@utcsri.UUCP (Peter Rowley)
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Subject: Viewpoint is similar to, but different from, Star
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Date: Fri, 9-May-86 10:03:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  9 10:03:42 1986
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One recent message implied that Xerox Viewpoint is the 1981 Star product
simply renamed.  Not true.  As delivered, Viewpoint provides generally the same
functionality, but it is noticeably faster, a good deal of the interface
has been changed (e.g. overlapping windows in arbitrary positions are
allowed now), and quite importantly, it has been unbundled.  Star was a
monolithic program, but Viewpoint is a bunch of modules.  Using the XDE
system, one can write one's own modules and load them into Viewpoint.
This is clearly important to allow 3rd-party developers to add to Viewpoint.