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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
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Subject: Re: Voice Mail on Amiga
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Date: 3 Oct 89 17:15:23 GMT
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In article <1989Oct3.152529.17423@rpi.edu> kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes:
>
>In  kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) writes:
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>Nguyen>    Nguyen> When did you last see a graphics/mouse-based
>Nguyen>    interface for a Unix Nguyen> workstation?
>Nguyen>    About 12 hours ago. (Sorry, I couldn't resist... and you
>Nguyen>    did ask....)  :)
>Nguyen> OK, I'll bite:  what machine was it?
>
>A SUN 3/50 running Xwindows. Other machines in the lab were running
>NeWS and the Sun proprietary environment. Friends of mine use Apollo
>workstations regularly. You were saying?

Woah, hang on there.  I think we're referring to two different and distinct
types of 'user-interface.'
When the question is asked -- 'When did you last see a [GUI] for Unix',
the question should have been posed as 'When did you last see a [GUI]Bench for
Unix'.  That is, X-Windows IS a GUI, but it has nothng to do (or at least very
little to do) with disk access.  All of that garbage is still type-and-
backspace...:-)  'Tis Unfortunate.

Unless X has something that Berkeley hasn't put on the Suns...

The Next interface has a painless GUI based disk-access, which is VERY handy.

						-David
PS  Of course, then again, I've never *seen* a NEXT.

David Navas
navas@cory.berkeley.edu