From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: Linux vs. NeXTstep Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 17:09:26 GMT
In article <1ol8rlINNd2e@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> pan@athena.mit.edu (Howard Wei-Hao Pan) writes:
>extra hardware, I would go with that. Furthermore, I would say NeXTSTEP is easier
>to use then X is. I'm using xrn right now; the interface is much uglier and less
>friendly than the Newsgrazer is for NeXTSTEP. I would say sysadmin on a NeXT
The reason NeXTStep looks better than X is that the only *guaranteed*
available widgets are Xaw, and they're downright UGLY. (I haven't seen Xaw3D
yet except in the R4 version I just put on the Sun at work... I presume the R5
version looks better, since it's rather more recent.) Xview (RIP) is freely
aailable but nobody uses it (and since it's not Xt compatible that is
understandable). Motif and OLIT (RIP) aren't free and you can't guarantee
that either is available on *all* X boxes, so programs like xrn suffer with
the Xaw widget set.
++Brandon
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