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From: johnny@edvvie.at (Johann Schweigl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: A question about "motif"
Summary: MOTIF Availability at IBM
Message-ID: <135@eliza.edvvie.at>
Date: 12 Aug 89 02:50:34 GMT
References: <125@rm1.UUCP>
Organization: Edv GesmbH, Austria/Europa
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In article <125@rm1.UUCP>, schuldy@rm1.UUCP (Mark (schuldy) Schuldenfrei) writes:
> I feel like a new neighbor, asking for a cup of sugar from strangers:
> 
> A friend of mine with no net access, but several PC RTs at his
> work site has asked me for your help.  He would like to know
> if the OSF interface software "MOTIF" has been ported to the
> RT, and how he might obtain a copy if so.  I have no experience
> with RTs, and thought I might ask your help.
> 
> As is usual with this sort of posting, offers of help, me toos,
> addresses of vendors and so on should be emailed to me.  I will
> sumarize any useful information.  Please remember, negative
> information (ie "It can't be done: I tried") are help also.

MOTIF has been ported to AIX. IBM showed it at various fairs as
'technology demo' - which means that you can't get what you see.
IBM Austria has a beta release of the product which will be shipping
in the next couple of month. Possibly it will come with the announcment
of AIX 3.x for the new RISC family.
I couldn't get a hand on the beta code, so I can't tell anything about it yet.
If you are a software crack, you could try to order the MOTIF sources directly
from OSF on port it yourself. I think OSF is going to ship MOTIF right now to
the rest of the world.


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