Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!excelan!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Common toolkit Message-ID: <4697@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 8 Jan 90 17:36:01 GMT References: <8912162135.AA03025@iris.rand.org> <4290@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <4392@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <4458@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <5V++88ggpc2@ficc.uu.net> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 16 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) In article <5V++88ggpc2@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc (Peter da Silva) writes: >How about the fact that there are several million such machines out there? Well, how much money is Dec, HP, Sun, etc. going to make by developing a toolkit usable on a 1 Meg machine? Besides, they don't want a toolkit that is comparable to the Mac/MS Windows. They want one that is better. Why buy a 5 grand machine when you can run the same software on a $2,000 PC? One of the advantages of Open Look and Motif is that it can do things that the Mac/PC cannot do. If a Unix workstation doesn't have a better toolkit, then it will be tough to get Mac/PC users to switch. -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!crdgw1!barnett