Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!shelby!portia!hanauma!rick From: rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Suntools vs. XWindows Message-ID: <3296@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 3 Jul 89 15:12:24 GMT Sender: USENET News System Reply-To: rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) Organization: Stanford University, Dept. of Geophysics Lines: 12 Sun has been warning users of the demise of Suntools since its Sun-2 Suntools releases in 1985. They recognized defects of machine dependence, resolution dependence, network ignorance, and kernal resource hogging of this early object-oriented graphics interface. The intended cure was the PostScript and object-oriented NeWS window system. However, since Sun was three years late in delivering this (1990 instead of 1987), both XWindows and Display Postscript with similar remedies have become defacto standards. The Suntools replacement called Open Windows (this month) provides a Suntool emulator called XView and another window system called Open Look. Both run ontop of NeWS and X11. Both are shipping in beta to developers and are displayed at trade shows.