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From: rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Press Release-AT&T Look & Feel
Message-ID: <1031@nusdhub.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 88 09:23:41 GMT
References: <944@ima.ISC.COM>
Organization: National University, San Diego
Lines: 47

in article <944@ima.ISC.COM>, marc@ima.ISC.COM (Marc Evans) says:
> 	Given these basic concepts, what would make AT&T think that they
> 	can announce some vapor-ware, which apparently they are planning to
> 	charge for, and expect it to become *the standard*? I could understand
> 	that maybe, if it was available today, they could potentially be in
> 	the running for *the standard*, but the thing doesn't appear to be
> 	available until late in 1988 or early 1989. By then alot of programs
> 	will have been created incorporating either X or NeWS alone.

This is NOT so vaporous as it might seem.  At u3g [University UNIX Users
Group]  in Atlanta a month or so ago, I witnessed [at least a pre-cursor]
of this product in action.  I bailed out on one of the lecture sets
due to extreem dis-intrest <the only really bad discorse at the meeting<
and discovered that the door to the lab was open <schedule said it was
closed<.  Inside there was a "man-from-AT&T" messing around on one of
the 6386 machines.

	He was loading and unloading packages from the system (I don't
know why) and I stopped to look over his shoulders at the prety pictures.
I was very impressed!  [I impress easily ;-)]  When I asked him what was
up, he told me [essentially] the following:

	This new "thing" was a windowing system which was designed to
work in several different ways.  There were several header files [c.f.
#include] one each for "X Windows" "NeWS" and something else which I
forget at the moment.  Each of these headders provided the "basic"
routines for the above, as was accompanied by libraries to complete
the idea.  [I know nothing about "NeWS" or "X Windows", nor did I
actually see these header files, So I can make no claims to the correctness
of their contents]
	Aparently the actual windowing system is capable of doing
quite a bit more than the either-or choice of NeWS/X Windows, but
my expertise runs low here.  Whatever it was, it didn't huccough once
durring the three hours I was watching, and it was FAST.  I was rather
impressed, but then again All I ever use under UNIX is the borne shell.


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