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From: price@WSL.DEC.COM
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Subject: Re: 3D Widgets
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Date: 12 Sep 88 18:41:50 GMT
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> ...It sure beats DEC, who won't let their
> widget set out at all.  Consider THAT in your next purchase of 
> hardware...

WRONG. ABSOLUTELY AND COMPLETELY WRONG. Digital's DECwindows Widget Set
is available by licensing the XUI package. Your cost as an ISV? Cost of
media, same as MIT charges. With it you get a source license. But you
get MUCH MUCH more than just a widget set. You get the UIL compiler
and run-time system, an ICCCM compliant window manager, and a session
manager. All components conform to the DECwindows Style Guide, a
document which has been honed for over 2 years by industrial designers
and Digital's system and product development teams.

Digital is pre-porting the package to a number of platforms to insure that
it will indeed be portable among most Unix flavors by merely recompiling
the software. The intent is that software vendors have production quality,
consistent user interface tools across all platforms they encounter. It is
a goal of the DECwindows program in particular, and our Unix/OSF strategy
in general *not* to lock software vendors into a proprietary, or unsupported,
or low quality system. There are NO Digital-exclusive (non-licensable) APIs
in the DECwindows system.

Consider THAT in you next purchase of hardware...

-chuck