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From: dbrooks@osf.OSF.ORG (David Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Athena vs. Open Look vs. DEC Windows vs. Motif vs. PM ???
Message-ID: <886@osf.OSF.ORG>
Date: 17 May 89 14:14:07 GMT
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Reply-To: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
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In article <1516@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> reha@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Reha Elci) writes:
>
> Athena and DECW are being used right now, Motif is kind of there but not
>officially, I have seen a few copies out there... Why PM? To the best of 
>my knowledge that will not run on the Sun anyhow.
>
>Athena is public, DECW you have to buy from DEC and I have no idea what the
>deal is to get MOTIF right now although a lot of people seem to have it
>including all source code.
[...]
>As far as the look and feel? I think MOTIF is the winner from what I have seen

Thankyou!

OSF/Motif combines technologies from HP, DEC and Microsoft.  Currently
it is available to several dozen source licensees, all of whom are
OSF Members, and who are being fed by a process of successive snapshots.

We will make Motif generally available in July.  Then we will continue
to offer source licenses for $1000 (the purpose being for vendors to
port it to their equipment), binary licenses (for ISVs) and runtime
licenses (for finished products) on a sliding scale, and university
site licenses also for $1000.

Apollo, DEC, Groupe Bull, HCR, HP, Hitachi, IBM, Interactive, MIPS,
Nixdorf, Oracle, SCO, and Siemens have announced various kinds of
support.
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