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From: ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii)
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to the Window System from Planet X
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Date: 22 Oct 90 16:06:01 GMT
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In article <34207@nigel.ee.udel.edu> arnold@freezer.it.udel.edu (frederick arnold) writes:
>
>2) Follow Silicon Graphics lead with the use of the Sony NeWS system.
>On the iris in our lab this allows a windowing environment that is
>responsive, easy to program, and extremely customizable. (it better
>be, as it's running something very similar to postscript(so say the
>manuals), and can use postscript fonts (so say I, having done it.))
>

Just a nit: It's the Sun Microsystem NeWS system.  Sony News (no
StUdLy CaPs) is a series of 680x0 and MIPS based workstations.

[ lots of psuedo-intellectual X bashing deleted ]

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