Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Common toolkit Message-ID: Date: 11 Jan 90 23:48:24 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> <4697@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <4736@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 30 > Who else is left? NeXT, for one. Most of the large corporations and universities in the country. All of the small ones. All of the private individuals. The Free Software Foundation. Andy Tannenbaum's growing gang of MINIX maniacs. User groups. > If someone wants to make a new toolkit and give it away - > fine. > >But from a UI viewpoint, what does a $5000 DECstation > >buy you that you can't do with a $2000 Mac? > Want a list of a hundred things that are difficult to do with the Mac > interface? Important things? How about 100 things that are easy to do with the Mac interface... starting with the ability to monitor a background activity: something that X toolkit based stuff just can't handle. And how about Microsoft Windows, Intuition, and so on? The Mac is just an example that you're most likely to be familiar with. > Again, if you used both the Mac and some of the better toolkits, if > would be obvious how inadequate the Mac UI is. Even for simple things > like resizing/moving windows, starting up programs, and selecting filenames. No, the Mac is a sort of starting point for me. As you know, I much prefer Intuition. Intuition runs on a machine that's even cheaper than the Mac. -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'