nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) (04/08/90)
In article <23942@usc.edu> rslau@skat.usc.edu (Robert Lau) writes: >At the risk of violating copyright laws, here's the table that appeared in >the article, "From TTY to VUI" by Frank Hayes in the Apr 90 issue of Byte: > >GUI Mac Windows PM Open Look Motif >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >OS Mac MS-DOS OS/2 Unix Unix >Multitasking No Yes Yes Yes Yes >Networking No No No Yes Yes >File Manager Internal Internal Internal Internal External >Consistency > across apps Very good Good Good Not available Not available >Graphics perf Good Good Good Slow Slow >Menu style Pull-down Drop-down Drop-down Pushpin Drop-down >CLI available No Yes Yes Yes Yes >Underlying > standards Mac SAA SAA X-window X-window >Software base Large Moderate Moderate Nonexistent Nonexistent >Available Yes Yes Yes No No > >The stuff about Open Look and Motif doesn't look right. Sun provides Really? I thought it looked pretty good. I'm not sure what they mean by "internal" file manager (presumably not where it's implemented) and you could argue with the availability. But otherwise. >an XView Programmer's Style Guide as does OSF. Graphics performance They don't mention style guide, they refer to consistency. To paraphrase Heinlein. A Style Guide is what you expect, Consistency is what you get. Since there aren't enough apps out yet you can't measure consistency in the X environment. >cannot be generalized as being "slow". Menu-style description is On comparable hardware X is definitely slow. I'd say we lost about a generation worth of performance in exchange for portability - e.g. my X performance on this generations hardware is about as fast as my native graphics performance on last generations. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Alphalpha Software, Inc. | Voice/Fax: 617/646-7703 | Home: 617/641-3805 | | 148 Scituate St. | Smart fax, dial number. | | | Arlington, MA 02174 | Dumb fax, dial number, | BBS: 617/641-3722 | | nazgul@alphalpha.com | wait for ring, press 3. | 300/1200/2400 baud | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+