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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: New MAC systems.
Message-ID: <2143@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 18 Oct 90 23:25:01 GMT
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In <9948@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>, msawyer@hokulea.hig.hawaii.edu (Michael Sawyer (REU)) writes:
>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.

This is true, and it was the reason X 'won' the market, (as opposed to 'greed'
on Sun's part).

>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...)

Well, to each his own. I use OpenLook every day, and am not overly thrilled
with it. Yes, it is based in NeWS, but it has a lot of X-isms (implemented in
NeWS, which says a fair bit about the power of NeWS itself).

>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).

I think all the GUIs can learn a little from each other. 

-larry

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