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- From: krishna@shamu.csd.sgi.com (Krishna `Shamu' Sethuraman)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: "slow networks"
- Message-ID: <9208271808.AA29568@shamu.csd.sgi.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 18:08:57 GMT
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- To solve this very problem, since I don't have anything but an 80x24 terminal
- at home, I use CUI. But, CUI is definitely *flexible* enough that I wrote a
- cui.el for use with it, allowing me to read my mail at home through emacs. Xmh
- definitely is a lose, in my experience - I find myself abandoning goo-ui user
- interfaces for an emacs-based client, even when I have to write the emacs
- client myself. Messages is the one GUI client that I retain, because of its
- good design (at least in my estimation) and speed.
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- Providing a text client that's powerful enough to allow an emacs front end, is
- again in my estimation, a sign of a user interface designed well enough to
- accommodate future expansion and a high degree of personal customization.
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- Krishna Sethuraman
- krishna@sgi.edu
- Silicon Graphics Incorporated - the Leader in Visual Supercomputing
- (If that's so, how come they use Motif?)
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- P.S. Hi Bill!!!
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