att & osf

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <24524 at bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd at bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost) writes:

|                                   In addition, AT&T is obviously
| following emerging standards in the workstation field (ie X windows
| support in addition to Open Look)... 

Lest this cause confusion, X-windows and Open Look do not compete in any
way. X-windows is a transport layer (more or less) which controls how
the data is to be transferred to the display, while Open Look is a user
interface which standardizes the way the user interacts with the
program.

X-windows competes with NeWS, and Open Look competes with the Max
Finder. Yes there are lots of other players in both areas.
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