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From: lerici@SUPER.ORG (Peter W. Brewer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Is SUN a "PURE PLAYER" in window systems - SunView or OpenWindows???
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Date: 4 Jan 90 19:39:38 GMT
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I'm not sure that X is so fixed in concrete that some of the things you find
bothersome could not change. I find InterViews almost equivalent to PostScript
in terms of 'imaging power' and yet flexible enough to do low level stuff..
and there is no interpreter nor the restrictions of a 'page description' 
paradigm. 

I like the look and feel of Motif more than OpenLook as a 'style guide', but
I think in terms of functionality InterViews has them beat.. particularly
with their new Unidraw graphical object/'widget' editor.

I have yet to see anything like this come from NeWS. I see NeXT with 
their NeXTStep and Display Postscript as being a more serious challenge to
X and all other window systems than NeWS.

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