Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Is SUN a "PURE PLAYER" in window systems - SunView or OpenWindows??? Message-ID: <7352@ficc.uu.net> Date: 18 Dec 89 23:43:42 GMT References: <8912162135.AA03025@iris.rand.org> <4290@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 20 In article <4290@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes: > You can have OpenLook on a PC, Mac, OS/2, Amiga, VMS system. > The real goal is to have the same user interface on every computer, > not just on Unix workstations running the X window system. How about the same programmer interface as well? One nice thing about C is that the stdio library gives you pretty much the same programmer interface to what are really quite sophisticated system functions on a wide variety of machines. Don't you think it's time to take a step back and look into this? Until it's there, having a standard *user* interface is a bit premature. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com