[comp.windows.x] GUI studies: OL vs Motif vs PM, what's out there?

mouse@LIGHTNING.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (12/19/90)

[ From a mail exchange.  >> is me; > is ytsai@attunix, the
  person who posted the announcement that started this off. ]

(The topic is a study that shows some OL-based GUI to be the "best" GUI
according to some measure, when compared with Presentation Manager and
Motif, on a specific user classification mix.  Aside from all the other
flaws with this argument, I said....)

>> Besides, we all know that studies are like benchmarks - look hard
>> enough and you can always find some that can be construed to support
>> your case.  If I cared enough to bother I would even write to the PM
>> and Motif people and ask them about studies supporting their UIs as
>> "the best".  I doubt not they would gladly cite such....
> I dare post this message.

I take this to mean "I dare you to post this message".  It is not clear
what he[%] means by "this message" - his letter to me or the letter I
proposed sending.

[%] His signature gives his name as "Charles"; I assume he's a man.

In either case, here it is.  Okay, PM and Motif fans, what studies can
you cite to support your side of this argument?  (I don't really care
about the OL family versus the Motif family versus PM versus whatever
else; as far as I'm concerned they're all the same.  So I don't care
enough to look "hard enough".)

					der Mouse

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