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From: tdesjardins@spurge.waterloo.edu (Tim Desjardins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: GUI Portability: Say MOTIF
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Date: 30 Sep 89 18:31:03 GMT
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In article <20214@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>You seem to be confused. What yuo call the X Toolkit is actually the "Athena
>Widget Set". Motif is NOT built on top of the X Toolkit, but on the 
                       ^^^                     ^^^^^^^^^
>X Intrinsics, the lowest common interface to all toolkits (Motif, Andrew, 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>HP, ATT OpenLook, etc...).

There seems to be a little confusion here, according to the HP widget manual and
the Jan. 1989 MIT X Conference, Xt is referred to as the X Toolkit Intrinsics,
which all widget sets are written on top of. So you're both right! If I may
add my own .02, X can be a pig, but if you take the time to fine tune your stuff
reasonable performance is not unheard of. I've used X, HP widgets and Athena 
Widgets on Sun 3/50's and Mac IIx's under AUX, and I would rather use X than 
nothing at all, mainly because of it's portability. 

Have a nice day.
Tim Desjardins.
tdesjardins@spurge.waterloo.{edu|cdn}

Have a nice day. 
Tim Desjardins.          
tdesjardins@spurge.waterloo.{edu|cdn}