markd@silogic.UUCP (Mark DiVecchio) (08/22/90)
Has anyone done any work with X on the Apollo Workstation? I recently loaded the Apollo X tape X11 R3 v1.1. It works well and I have been able to write a few simple programs. Performance is even decent on the DN3000 which I am using. It's nice but I think I'm missing something and that something may be Motif. The release contained the Xt Toolkit which included about 6-8 simple widgets. They don't have the 3-D pushbuttons or other more sophisticated widgets. Do I really need the Motif software to do any useful work? Apollo sells it for a lot more than X itself cost. Insight would be appreciated. -- Mark DiVecchio, Silogic Systems, 619-549-9841 K3FWT ----- 9888 Carroll Center Road, Suite 113, San Diego, CA 92126 ----- markd@silogic BBS 619-549-3927 ...!ucsd!celerity!celit!silogic!markd celerity!silogic!markd@ucsd.edu
kahlers@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (08/23/90)
> Has anyone done any work with X on the Apollo Workstation? > The release contained the Xt Toolkit which included about 6-8 > simple widgets. They don't have the 3-D pushbuttons or other more > sophisticated widgets. > Do I really need the Motif software to do any useful work? Apollo sells > it for a lot more than X itself cost. The 6-8 widgets without the 3-D look are the "Athena" widget set, which is a standard part of any X-Distribution since X 11.0. I have used these extensively, but only because it was the only game in town 2 years ago. Since Motif 1.0 is now available on Apollos you should start with it. Motif has much more future than the Athena widget set. Both Athena and Motif are based on the same set of Intrinsics (Xt Toolkit) (right now there is a slight version problem between X11.3 Xt and Motif 1.0 Xt). You can do "Useful work" with Athena and Xlib, but if you are trying to do any reasonably complex user interface, go with Motif. There are many more widgets and more resources (options) available. ======================================================================== Kem Ahlers kahlers.ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Internet) Caterpillar, Inc. u36009@ncsagate (Bitnet) Peoria, IL USA uunet!uiucuxc!uiucux1!kahlers (uucp)