Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Common toolkit (Was: Is SUN a "PURE PLAYER" in window systems - SunView or OpenWindows???) Message-ID: <5V++88ggpc2@ficc.uu.net> Date: 8 Jan 90 04:32:38 GMT References: <8912162135.AA03025@iris.rand.org> <4290@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <4392@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <4458@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14 > You have proposed a universal toolkit. One that would work with the native > window system of the PC, Amiga or Mac, as well as X or NeWS. > >Or are you saying that if you can't afford a 5-10 grand workstation you > >aren't worth paying attention to? > What commercal reason would a vendor have for creating such a useless toolkit? I don't know. I guess I'm totally out to lunch. It's just my imagination that many very large companies have spent zillions of man-hours developing software for sub-5-grand workstations. Microsoft Windows 1.x (a nice UI in many ways) runs usably fast on a PC/XT with 256K of RAM. How about the fact that there are several million such machines out there? -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ Also or \_.--._/ v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'