In another twist to the story, it seems that DEC will to all intents and purposes turn DECwindows, currently offered on all of its hardware, into Motif. Such a move is a fairly logical progression to integrate the two environments and offer a single user interface right across its ranges. Motif was originally built upon DEC’s toolkit application programming interface, the core of which is the X user interface, but has been enhanced with other features. According to Jean-Claude Monney, DEC’s plan is to begin shipping Motif – including the user interface language – on its systems from January. The X user interface will then be migrated to Motif, so that DECwindows will become Motif in all but name, with all the existing features of DECwindows retained. Subsequently the Motif version of DECwindows will be available on all its systems.
