Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: att & osf
Message-ID: <11968@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 24 Aug 88 20:34:04 GMT
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In article <24524@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:

|                                   In addition, AT&T is obviously
| following emerging standards in the workstation field (ie X windows
| support in addition to Open Look)... 

Lest this cause confusion, X-windows and Open Look do not compete in any
way. X-windows is a transport layer (more or less) which controls how
the data is to be transferred to the display, while Open Look is a user
interface which standardizes the way the user interacts with the
program.

X-windows competes with NeWS, and Open Look competes with the Max
Finder. Yes there are lots of other players in both areas.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me