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From: jback@trine.East.Sun.COM (Joe Backo - PS Mgr Sun Washington)
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Subject: Re: Open Windows 2.0 released (Sun press release)
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.075359@trine.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 14 Aug 90 11:53:59 GMT
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In article <3861@husc6.harvard.edu>, bochner@lange.harvard.EDU (Harry
Bochner) writes:
|> In article <1990Aug2.025858.14871@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>,
|> ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch) writes:
|>  > 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.
|> 
|> I haven't tried it, but I'm rather suspicious about the robustness of
XView,
|> on the following basis. Sun has put a lot of work into their Desk
Suite
|> programs,
|> SunWrite, SunDraw, etc. So far these programs are available _only_ in
SunView
|> versions. The fact that they haven't released X versions seems to
mean that:

... stuff deleted...

|> This is just speculation: anyone have any information?


--
Harry;

The "Desk Suite" programs you refer to have been transfered back to
Island Graphics, their original creators.  I spoke to Island Graphics
last week, and they informed me that an OpenWindows (XView) version of
SunWrite, SunPaint, and SunDraw is in the works - possible release in
1990.  The OpenWindows 2.0 release has the same 14 DeskSet tools that
are available in SunView (e.g. tapetool, printool, calendar manager,
etc.). As for the "robustness of XView", the source code for XView 2.0
will being appearing on expo soon, why don't you try it?

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