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From: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
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Subject: Re:  Need information on SunView 2.0 and compatibility
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Date: 17 Jan 89 21:03:24 GMT
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My question: what cognitive analysis was done on Open Look?

Hank Grebe replies:

> I have not seen any actual "Candid Camera" type testing of Open Look going on
> here, but there is a proposal in the works for us to do "usability
> testing" on Open Look in 1989.

Isn't this great?!  Design the interface, release the interface, call the
interface the "standard", and then decide to test it a little bit.  The
more I hear about Open Look, the less I like.

Now that OSF has picked some variant of Presentation Manager, isn't the
future looking bright?  Open Look from ATT/Sun, or PM from everybody else.
Sigh...  That X version of SunView is looking better all the time.

BTW, I was informed by someone at Sun that SunView binaries will run under
the X11/NeWS merge, so all is not lost.

Chuck Musciano
Advanced Technology Department
Harris Corporation
(407) 727-6131
ARPA: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com