bob@aargh.cis.ohio-state.EDU (Bob Sutterfield) (10/23/87)
> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 87 16:59:55 EST > Subject: Re: Toolkit for NeWS (X vs NeWS) > From: mss+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Steven Sherman) > > As announced, the joint IBM-CMU ITC project is placing its > Andrew Toolkit on the X tape. I'm very eager to see it. > ... (Why live in one world (X/NeWS) when you can coexist in > several?) I can see the advantage of having some of Andrew's user-interface features available under X, and thereby (via the X11 server protocol emulator) under NeWS: I will be able to run binaries from all of {Andrew | X11 | SunView | NeWS} on my screen at the same time. I can have GNU Emacs thinking it's in X mode right next to a dbxtool right next to Mona Lisa right next to the "orbits around two fixed planets" game/demo. And I'll have a great time at it (I was given a bumper sticker this morning that reads "Better Living Through Complexity"). But boy-oh-boy, will it ever confuse the uninitiated (read: sophomore CS students just coming up from Mac-land, and even a lot of far more experienced folks) when they all look, feel, and behave differently. We'll have to be even more careful in designing Baby's First Window Environment when all that capability is out there. Our local Baby's First X set-up has been fairly well received, but to provide an easy expansion path as users learn the ropes gets harder and harder when there's more and more expansion available. ------ Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277 bob@ohio-state.{arpa,csnet} or ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!bob soon: bob@cis.ohio-state.edu