From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 26 12:32:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA13749 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 12:32:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA13726 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 12:31:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0tr9aM-0009YrC; Mon, 26 Feb 96 12:31 PST Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 12:31:50 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby To: Christoph Kukulies cc: coredump@nervosa.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) In-Reply-To: <199602261751.SAA01580@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > There is a (rather steep) version of MFC for Unix, Wind/U from Bristol > Technologies. According to the Willows people, Bristol paid a rather steep license for the Windows source code, and MS isn't interested in bringing any new competition in this area. Therefore, any version of MFC to go with TWIN would have to be a free rewrite, since MS refuses to license to Willows. As an aside, the people at Byte and InfoWorld were impressed with the port of PowerBuilder to Sun, which used Wind/U and apparently looks like Motif but has the same functionality (and source code!) as the Windows version. Interestingly, TWIN looks like Windows, but I count that as an ADVANTAGE, since it a) doesn't require a Motif license, b) is faster and smaller than Motif, c) Unix doesn't have a common look and feel anyway (unlike the Mac), and d) What was Motif originally but a cheap knockoff of HP VUE and OS/2 Presentation Manager? :-) > > begin 600 WINMAIL.DAT > [something unix mail reader have to cope in the near future] > [...] Arggh!!! Didn't realize I was emitting nasty MS attachments to my mail! I was wondering what that crap was when I got a mail invitation to be an NT beta tester... Next thing you know we'll be back to the dark ages of: ======= RFC 822 headers ====== (remember VMS?) ---Jake