Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!sgi!daisy!klee
From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Press Release-AT&T Look & Feel
Message-ID: <1043@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 18:35:27 GMT
References: <8804122102.AA23385@brillig.umd.edu>
Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
Lines: 23

In article <8804122102.AA23385@brillig.umd.edu> Bruce Becker writes:
>X is more a toolkit, as to a fair extent is NeWS... Open Look appears to be
>more ambitious a la Mac, in trying to specify User Interface & dialogue
>standards - it seems that IBM's SAA also is their attempt to stumble about
>in this minefield...

I agree.  X and NeWS are primarily function libraries, much as stdio
and curses are for dumb tty's.  Open Look seems more like a command
interpreter, i.e., a graphical shell.  In fact, I would be suprised of
Open Look were not implemented on X, NeWS, or Sun's announced merged
product.  The shell windows that come with X and NeWS, e.g., xterm, are
really pretty primitive, so I think Open Look has alot of potential.

The problem they will have is maintaining the power of UNIX with a
graphical command language.  Although easier to use, I think the
Macintosh command interpreter is much less powerful than csh or ksh.

Ken
-- 
OS/2 won't really be available until next year?
The IBM PS/2:  half a computer today, half an operating system tomorrow.

"When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose." - Dylan