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From: laukee@canon.co.uk (David Lau-Kee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Open Windows 2.0 released (Sun press release)
Message-ID: <1990Aug8.093701.26324@canon.co.uk>
Date: 8 Aug 90 09:37:01 GMT
References: <11722@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: Canon Research Europe, Guildford, UK
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gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:

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>		FAST NEW 3-D OPEN LOOK NOW AVAILABLE FROM SUN 
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>SunFLASH Vol 19 #20					 	July 1990 
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etc.

How does OW2 FCS differ from OW2(beta)?  If it is essentially the
same then how are these "five times faster" figures calculated?  We found
2beta subjectively *slower* than 1.0.  Are we talking "faster" as in
"faster on 4Mb machines"?

And what's this stuff about 3-D Open Look?? (Beta gives you "real" pseudo 3-d
Xview, but TNT stays pseudo-pseudo).  How about consistent look & feel between
X and NeWS applications?  Again the toolkit l&f mismatches (mis-trackings)
between X and NeWS means that this is not the case.

Maybe marketing hype is the price one pays for seeing the product ship...
Ok, fair exchange.

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