From: martin@Chemeng.Ed.Ac.Uk (Martin Spenceley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: OS Names - what they are...
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:44:49 GMT
Reply-To: martin@Chemeng.Ed.Ac.Uk
Organization: Edinburgh University Chemical Engineering Department.
Originator: martin@wick

In article 4902@tuegate.tue.nl, peter@blade (Peter Korsten) writes:
In article 4902@tuegate.tue.nl, peter@blade (Peter Korsten) writes:
>catapcnl@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Chris Lawrence) writes:
>: [stuff deleted]
>: If I wanted to be technical, I'd say that Intuition was the Amiga GUI, not  
>: Workbench.  However, I've seen so many *obviously* wrong OS names that much of  
>: this is nit-picking.  At least people *do* care what the real names are, so  
>: here goes (w/ corrections thus far):
>: 
>: Sys     User Gfx Shell   GUI              Operating System
>: ---------------------------------------------------------
>: Amiga   Workbench        Intuition        AmigaOS
>: ST      GEM Desktop      GEM              TOS
>: Mac     Finder           System           System
>: PC      Windows, OS/2*   OpenLook         MS-DOS; PC-DOS; OS/2; DR-DOS
>: NeXT    File Viewer      NeXTStep         Mach
>
>PC still isn't correct. How about this?
>
>PC  1:	  Program Manager    MS-Windows              MS-DOS*
>    2:    Program Manager?   Presentation Manager    OS/2
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Wrong name. For the moment I have for forgotten it. TPS? 
>
>And for Unix:
>
>Unix      Is there any?!     X+(Motif or Open Look   Unix SysVr4 or
>                                or TWM or whatever)  BSD
>
>Ah, forget about Unix, I'm really not sure about that. Unix runs on
>many different architectures, including all the above computers. And
>there are also the different workstations, like Suns, DECstations,
>the like with SunView, DEC Window Manager. etc.
>
Ah, come on just when it was getting fun. ;-)

Here's some UNIX flavours (Supported by the Manufacturers) off the top
of my head.

Sys    User Gfx Shell       GUI       Transport   OS
                                      Layer

SUN    OPENWINDOWS 3 (olwm) OPEN LOOK NEWS/X      SUNOS (5.0) V5R4 (Solaris 2.0)
       SUNTOOLS             SUNVIEW   SUNVIEW     "  "

DEC    DEC-WINDOWS (mwm)    Motif     X           Ultrix (V5R3 + OSF/1 bits?) 
HP     VUE (mwm)            Motif     X           HP-UX  (V5R? + OSF/1 bits?) 
C-Amiga  ? (olwm)           OPEN LOOK X           Unix V5R4
IBM    X-Desktop?  (mwm)    Motif     X           AIX    (V5R3 + OSF/1 bits?) 
Silicon Graphics  ?         Motif     X/NEWS?     OSF/1 (ACE?)  
SCO    X-Desktop   (mwm)    Motif       X         OPEN Desktop - V5R3+OSF/1 bits?
Solbourne  ?                OPEN LOOK/Motif X     SUNOS(4.1.1) Solaris 1.0.


mwm - Motif Window Manager olwm - Open Look Windows Manager. Of couse
it is possible to get a mwm for Sun and olwm for the rest!

Because of X is system independent of the architecture, the 'GUI' for
non-X machines becomes a GUI (Look and Feel + Toolkits) + a Transport
Layer for Unix systems.

Unix is so confusing! I personally blame I*M, D*C and H* for not having
the guts to address SUN's superiority in the UNIX marketplace and so
had to confuse people to a point where the company name became the
selling point to many of the potential UNIX customers.

Wow! I can feel the heat from those flames already! ;-)

Martin

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