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From: msawyer@hokulea.hig.hawaii.edu (Michael Sawyer (REU))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: New MAC systems.
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Date: 19 Oct 90 19:48:45 GMT
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In article <2138@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:

>available at a reasonable price (don't recall numbers), and you could buy NeWS
>for the Sun for about $150 (that's in Northern Pesos, so US price was less).
>That $150 bought you the Media, software, extensive docs, and 'right to use'
>license. Greedy? Hardly.

But the software was a dog...  I had to spend some time using NeWS for
to run a few `minor' programs, and and it was terrible to work with.
The user interface was OK (better than SunView, I will admit), but I
must have found 100 bugs in the system.

Much better is their new OpenLook stuff (which incorporates NeWS as
well).  The NeWS in this version seems to have the bugs fixed, and
doesn't force you to use the NeWS terminal windows.  (Which if you
make small, the text size gets small, still 80 col by 24 lines...)



Although I am not sure exactly we got on this topic in c.s.a.t, but I
will say that overall I have liked OpenLook better than the Amiga
windowing system.  I have only played with the 2.0 windows a little
bit (too busy with other stuff to mess with that).
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