freedman@ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Dan Freedman) (03/29/89)
Can anybody (particularly at Apollo) tell me roughly when we can expect to see OSF's Motif Application Presentation Interface available on Apollos? Our local salespeople don't seem to know. Also, rumor has it that a non-beta version of the integrated X windows / Display manager product might be available as early as this April. Our local salespeople say it may not be available until OS 10.2 ships, which is apparantly 3 or 4 months down the road. Version 1.1 Beta of X (the one direct from Apollo, not from Adus) has a particularly nasty bug in it which causes problems with certain programs, particularly dde and GNU emacs; in the latter program, severe enough to crash a 4500 (SR10.1) after iconizing and then de-iconizing the emacs window (under the DM). At any rate, other than that, and some sluggishness, X runs nicely on a 4500, and our users enjoy the control that it gives them, hence our interest in a non-beta (or at least a later) version. Dan Freedman University of Calgary Computer Science Department 2500 University Drive N.W. freedman@cpsc.UCalgary.CA Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4 ...!alberta!calgary!freedman
nazgul@apollo.COM (Kee Hinckley) (03/31/89)
In article <981@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> freedman@ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Dan Freedman) writes: > > Can anybody (particularly at Apollo) tell me roughly when we >can expect to see OSF's Motif Application Presentation Interface >available on Apollos? Our local salespeople don't seem to know. Developer's copies should be available shortly. You should contact Heidi Dix in marketing for more information on that. We're working on the schedule for a full release, I don't know when it will be for sure. Hopefully not too long after the OSF release this summer. In addition we will be releasing support for creating Motif compatible applications using Open Dialogue. Kee Hinckley -- ### User Environment, Apollo Computer Inc. ### Public Access ProLine BBS ### ### {mit-erl,yale,uw-beaver}!apollo!nazgul ### nazgul@pro-angmar.cts.com ### ### nazgul@apollo.com ### (617) 641-3722 300/1200/2400 ### I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.