Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!arisia!roo!janssen From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: NeWS down-played in OW 2.0 Message-ID: Date: 22 Aug 90 02:11:42 GMT References: <11722@hoptoad.uucp> <1990Aug21.154152.27532@odin.corp.sgi.com> Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 21 In-reply-to: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com's message of 21 Aug 90 15:41:52 GMT msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) writes: Even PageView, which should be the premier NeWS application, seems lacking. It has lost the random page access feature of psview. While agreeing that NeWS is a 2nd-class citizen in OW 2.0, and that pageview should have random page access, I don't think that pageview should be seen as the premier NeWS application/demo. It is too easily matched/overmatched by Display PostScript analogues on other X servers. On a different thread: I'm not sure that the 2nd-classness of NeWS is Sun's fault. Seems to me that the world (or maybe "commercial market") is the one putting NeWS in the back seat, and that Sun, wanting to be a player in that world, is forced to go along. Bill -- Bill Janssen janssen@parc.xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304