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From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Marketing -- MTS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Does NEWS work ok on a DECstation?
Keywords: mips, news, decstation
Message-ID: <116897@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 21 Jul 89 01:06:38 GMT
References: <1487@ndmath.UUCP> <2679@decuac.DEC.COM>
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Reply-To: khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Marketing -- MTS)
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In article <2679@decuac.DEC.COM> avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) writes:
>
>NEWS?  NeWS?  Or news?  Hmmm...  Not NEWS, the Sony workstation.  Not NeWS the SUN proprietary
>network extensible windowing system.  You must mean usenet news software.
>

NeWS is available on SGI, IBM PC's and Mac's (among other things). I
don't know of any reason why it wouldn't work on the SPIM box (but I
don't know anyone who is running it on one); and the licenses are
cheap. 


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