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- From: dave@prc.unisys.com (David Lee Matuszek)
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.132507.17923@gvl.unisys.com>
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:25:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug09.060936.13091@CS.ORST.EDU> pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne) writes:
- >[ Much deleted ]
- >
- >Apple did a good job with the GUI, it was one of the best for a while,
- >But they fumbled the ball. Motif is a better GUI now (true it is for
- >high powered UNIX boxes running X-Win, but it is better) and now for
-
- I hate to enter a religious war, but since I use Macs at home and a
- Sun Sparcstation 2 (high powered UNIX boxes running X-Win), I find
- this assertion ("Motif is a better GUI now") incredible.
-
- Two main points about Motif are:
-
- (1) It's impossible to make an application crash-proof. If you wave
- the mouse around and click while Motif is still thinking about the
- last mouse click, it's gonna crash. There's nothing your application
- can do about this.
-
- (2) It's impossible to make an application WYSIWYG. Text entered
- into a text widget isn't really there until you hit Return, it just
- looks like it's there. Workarounds are possible only at the cost of
- disfiguring your interface.
-
- This is for OSF Motif. I've observed this behaviour in three major
- applications programmed by three different people, as well as in my
- own clumsy programming attempts, so it's not just something stupid
- that's unique to me.
-
- --dave
-
- --
- And the President put his hand on my shoulder and said: "Dan,
- I _knew_ Spiro Agnew. He was a friend of mine. And Dan...
- You're no Spiro Agnew!"
- -- Vice President Dan Quayle
-