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From: azcb0@ccc.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks)
Subject: Re: Motif for NetBSD / i386
Message-ID: <1995Nov3.171610.29660@ccc.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: azcb0@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
References: <5x2AiP8M7YB@tethys.ping.de> <1995Nov2.104520.19346@wavehh.hanse.de>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 17:16:10 GMT
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In article <1995Nov2.104520.19346@wavehh.hanse.de> cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes:
>torsten@tethys.ping.de (Torsten Rissel) writes:
>
>>Has anyone heard about Motif for NetBSD running on PC's ?
>
>info@lasermoon.co.uk / info@acc-corp.com
>
>once sold one for NetBSD, but I've been told that their product
>is not reliable.
>
>Note that you alway can buy sources and compile it yourself. More
>expensive, but if your company relies on Motif, maybe an option, since
>Source is neccecary for many common tasks in Motif anyway (ok, ok, I
>won't broadcast my Motif opinions...).

I too won't ask why anyone would want to use Motif, but I'm sure
there's a good reason. I believe that you can get Motif for both
Linux and FreeBSD, and so you could buy one of those versions of
Motif, and use the binary emulation for either one.

No, I've not tried it - Motif, that is. The binary emulation works
well, in NetBSD 1.1_ALPHA.

Cheers,
Alistair
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Alistair G. Crooks (agc@uts.amdahl.com)                    +44 125 234 6377
Amdahl European HQ, Dogmersfield Park, Hartley Wintney, Hants RG27 8TE, UK.
[These are only my opinions, and certainly not those of Amdahl Corporation]