Intergraph Corp, Huntsville, Alabama is the latest hardware manufacturer to endorse the Open Software Foundation’s Motif user interface, which it will use with the X Window System as the basic applications programming interface for its range of Unix based graphics workstations and servers. Intergraph currently supports X Window, on which OSF/Motif is based, in a co-operable environment with its proprietary Environ V windowing system: it said that a migration period from Environ V to OSF/Motif should be completed by the third quarter of the year, although the performance benefits of Environ V, which is designed for intensive graphics applications, would be retained where necessary. These performance enhancements will remain compatible with OSF/Motif, according to the company.
