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From: freedman@ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Dan Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: When will Apollo have OSF/Motif?
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Date: 29 Mar 89 05:59:46 GMT
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	Can anybody (particularly at Apollo) tell me roughly when we
can expect to see OSF's Motif Application Presentation Interface
available on Apollos?  Our local salespeople don't seem to know.

	Also, rumor has it that a non-beta version of the integrated X
windows / Display manager product might be available as early as this
April.  Our local salespeople say it may not be available until OS
10.2 ships, which is apparantly 3 or 4 months down the road.  

	Version 1.1 Beta of X (the one direct from Apollo, not from
Adus) has a particularly nasty bug in it which causes problems with
certain programs, particularly dde and GNU emacs; in the latter
program, severe enough to crash a 4500 (SR10.1) after iconizing and
then de-iconizing the emacs window (under the DM).  At any rate, other
than that, and some sluggishness, X runs nicely on a 4500, and our
users enjoy the control that it gives them, hence our interest in a
non-beta (or at least a later) version.

Dan Freedman
University of Calgary Computer Science Department
2500 University Drive N.W.			      freedman@cpsc.UCalgary.CA
Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4	                   ...!alberta!calgary!freedman