Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!navas From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Voice Mail on Amiga Message-ID: <17939@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 3 Oct 89 17:15:23 GMT References: <688@orange6.qtp.ufl.edu><1989Oct2.132314.12313@rpi.edu> <1989Oct3.152529.17423@rpi.edu> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (David C. Navas) Distribution: na Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 31 In article <1989Oct3.152529.17423@rpi.edu> kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes: > >In kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) writes: > >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