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From: dent@unocss..unl.edu (Local Submission)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: OSF/Motif vs. NeWS vs. SUN/Open Windows vs. ?
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Date: 23 Feb 90 23:20:36 GMT
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roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>In article <8450001@hpfcdc.HP.COM> mhn@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mark Notess) writes:
>> Bill Buxton predicted a couple years ago that the Mac interface would
>> become the COBOL of the 1990s.  Interesting ...

>	And what does that mean?  If I had to define COBOL, I'd say it is
>an ancient, horrible, computer language which computer science types sneer
>at, deride, and use as the punch line of endless jokes, yet is probably one
>of the most commercially important languages used today.

Well let's see... (tounge stuck firmly in cheek)
Assuming that by "Mac Interface" Bill Buxton might have meant graphical
interfaces (X-Windows, for example?  It's feasible that Apple might port the
Mac Interface to X... maybe not /likely/, but feasible. :-)

"What's bigger than a toaster?"
	"The source for the X-Windows version of 'Hello World'."
"What's bigger than a house?"
	"The source for the X-Windows version of 'Hello World'."
"What's bigger than a major Interstate?"
	"The source for the X-Windows version of 'Hello World'."

(you get the idea, I'm sure. :-)

I don't think anyone would doubt, however, that X-Windows is probably becoming
a very important (commercially) item in the computer idustry.

So, I think you got it about right! :-)

-/ Dave Caplinger /---------------------------------------------------------
 Microcomputer Specialist,   Campus Computing,   Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha
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