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From: stpeters@dawn.steinmetz
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Open Look vs. DECwindows
Message-ID: <12124@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 13 Sep 88 15:13:32 GMT
References: <1542@daisy.UUCP> <8809080026.AA04531@eros.pa.dec.com>
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Reply-To: dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (Dick St.Peters)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
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In article <8809080026.AA04531@eros.pa.dec.com> price@WSL.DEC.COM writes:
>
>While many of the component products of DECwindows are still to be announced,
>we have announced XUI, which is basically the common API for DECwindows
>applications.
>....
>This is the package that has been submitted
>to OSF in response to the OSF RFT.
>...
>The DECwindows program has been in progress for 2 years, and currently consumes
>1/4 of Digital's *entire* engineering staff. Needless to say, we have a
>significant suite of applications in the wings. (At one time I counted
>*50* separate projects underway).

In other words, DEC proposes a standard on which DEC has a 2-year head
start, a standard developed in secret with no input from other vendors.

Chuck, remember how evil this sort of thing was when you thought it
was what Sun/AT&T had in mind ?  How ironic that you're trying to use
OSF as a vehicle for it now.

../dick
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Dick St.Peters                        
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
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