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From: ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.news,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Open Windows 2.0 released (Sun press release)
Message-ID: <1990Aug2.025858.14871@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>
Date: 2 Aug 90 02:58:58 GMT
References: <11722@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: Prentice Computer Centre
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Hi guys & gals,

There have been a few things that have been confusing me over this stuff with
OW/NeWS/X11.  We here have a Sun 4/470 as a standalone machine.  On our LAN,
we have a fair number of machines running X, rangeing from an NCD X-terminal
to the Sun 3/50 that I use (I run xdm on the 470 and simply have the 3/50 as
a display, little more than a terminal really).

What I want to know basically is "What would OW2.0 do for us ?"  Would I be
able to run OW/NeWS/X11 stuff on the 470 and have it displayed on an X-terminal
or any other X-machine ?  This would be wonderfull but I am unsure from what I
have read as to whether it is possible.  One of the things that would be really
usefull in this case would be the ability to run SunView applications on
remote X-terminals.

On another note, the press release mentions a new version of XView that makes
it easy to convert current SunView stuff to X11.  How much easier ?  I fiddled
with XView a month or so ago, and tried to convert mush to use XView.  It
appeared to me that you would have to have about 5 years of experience in BOTH
X11 and SunView to have a hope of converting anything (but maybe I was
approaching the problem in the wrong way).  Has anyone managed this feat BTW,
as I am currently using xmh and long to be able to use "Xmush".  Tooltool is
another I would love to see converted as I have this wonderfull nntool that
I created in my old SunView days.

thanx in advance for any info/experience you could forward,

ant

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