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From: bae@lll-tis.arpa (Hwa Jin Bae)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NeWS for the ST!
Message-ID: <21745@lll-tis.arpa>
Date: Sun, 4-Oct-87 18:13:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: lll-tis.21745
Posted: Sun Oct  4 18:13:02 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 7-Oct-87 06:40:01 EDT
References: <484@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> <3746154a.9540@apollo.uucp> <167@geovision.UUCP> <1445@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: bae@lll-tis.arpa (Hwa Jin Bae)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA
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In article <1445@ssc-vax.UUCP> benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) writes:
>In article <167@geovision.UUCP>, alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer) writes:
>>  I don't want this to degenerate into  religious_wars.windows,  but
>> personally I'd like to see X for the ST.  Maybe it isn't the "best"
>> (whatever that means) window system, but I work with 4 different
>> mfg's hardware, and X runs on all of it (including the Suns).  Makes
>> software porting a lot easier.  It'd sure be nice to use some of that
>> on my ST, or to use my ST to develop software at home.
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>
>The combination of GEM/TOS was good two years ago ... (at least from
>a financial point of view) ... offering a choice on the Megas between
>GEM/TOS and Unix/[NeWS/X] would have been fairly bright ... 
As far as software portability is concerned, I have another in mind.
I heard some time ago that Productivity Procducts International (PPI)
- I think this is right - has release a product line based on
software IC concept that works with their Objective-C language.
What they did was to provide window library independent programming
environment that works with Sun window library calls, X-window
libraries, etc...  Basically, you can use the window software IC as
a class library for the Objective-C language programs.  The window
based application program you write would run on any system that PPI
provides window software IC for.  I think PPI was also mentioning
something about MS-windows compatibility.  Does anyone know more about
this?