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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT & Interface Builders
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Date: 7 Oct 90 15:23:54 GMT
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In <8036@gollum.twg.com>, david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:

>NeXT has another Big Problem which will limit software for it -- it
>doesn't run X.  X is a very powerful force in the market right now,
>especially on workstation-y like things.  It may have some technical
>problems, and it may not be the "best way to do user interfaces"
>(whatever that means), but it's a very useful system -- especially
>since it runs across networks & all.  Heck, X even beat out Sun
>with their Sun{tools,view} stuff that they've now adopted X and
>given it a place in the environment ..

To say that X 'beat out Sun(tools|view)' is misleading. It would be more
accurate to say that it beat out NeWS, which was the nearest equivalent product
of Sun. Sun(tools|view) would have been replaced anyway, and it was just a
matter of what was going to replace it. It's just too bad that X got such a
firm foothold before NeWS was ready. (this may or may not correspond with the
offical opinion of my employer, and is my opinion alone)

-larry

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