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From: uad1077@dircon.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: OpenWindows finally Open!
Message-ID: <1990Nov5.193920.2444@dircon.uucp>
Date: 5 Nov 90 19:39:20 GMT
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If the Open in OpenWindows is indeed no longer just a clearing of marketing
throats, why couldn't they have done it three years ago, when there was
a chance of making it into a product?  In chess, there's a term`tempo'.
With all the messing around, NeWS would appear to have lost a lethal
amout of tempo.  I was surpised at just how good and how fast X was
when I started using it.  By now, you'd need an even bigger gasp factor
for people going the other way.

And which VERSION of OW is it?  The one everyone's been complaining about
here recently:-)?

"X is great for writing terminal emulators; NeWS is great for writing
non-Mac DTP programs, if anyone wants such a thing; but its the 1990's
and people want GRAPHICS"

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