On Wed, 26 Apr 1995, Gavin Scott wrote: > Eric writes: > > Can anyone provide feedback on the Motif product available on the 3k? > > > > Better yet, can anyone describe their use of Motif on the 3k? (I remember a > > post once that the Boeing? people had 3k Motif apps running.) > > Well, I was *the* beta test site for Motif/XL when it came out a > few years ago. the following comments are based on that experience, > and things may have changed since that time (then again, since there > haven't been many users of the product, things might *not* have > changed). Is there a version of Motif for MPE/V systems? If not, is source available so that it may be compiled under MPE/V? Is there any GUI type interface for MPE/V based HP 3000s? > Watch out for fancy Motif widgets and other things that enable > mouse tracking events. When this gets turned on, every motion of > the mouse over a window that is coming from the 3000 will spam > the 3000 with network packets, which is a Bad Thing(tm). > > Performance is really not bad for less intensive applications. An > X based user will probably use up significantly more resources > than a terminal (or VT) based user though. > > As I recall, you were required to statically link ~12000 sectors of > Motif and X code into every application, so if you want to have lots > of programs, then memory becomes an issue. They may have fixed this > now that 5.0 supports shared global data, but I don't know how much > work has gone into the product lately. > > > Any simple Motif application source welcome. I'd sure like to see an > > existing application to model to setup a demo. > > I was able to compile a lot of public domain X programs and run them > on the 3000. At that time most of the interesting stuff required the > Athena widgets, which HP never provides with their X distribution, > so most of what I played with wasn't very fancy stuff (xasteroids > runs amazingly well). > NCSA Mosaic? Daniel Kosack [log in to unmask]