Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Mac LC or NEXT Message-ID: Date: 4 Feb 91 15:07:16 GMT References: <137661.27A25062@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <1991Jan31.132606.9845@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> <85859@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <13255@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 32 In-reply-to: melling@cs.psu.edu's message of 1 Feb 91 15:31:00 GMT In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > I know people(and have seen a lot of articles posted by people), who > state that Sun should have never dropped News. They claim it was > great. Sun still ships News with their OpenLook system( > X11/News/Sunview). It might be a scaled down version though. Read > comp.windows.misc and sooner or later someone will mention News. You might even read comp.windows.news :-) NeWS was not scaled done. It was improved, and a new toolkit was included (although it is a prototype and unsupported). Now that Sun has a reasonable version of X, rumor has it thay are spending more time with NeWS. New, supported toolkits are rumored. Display PostScript and NeWS are two very different beasts. DP is a rendering engine, while NeWS is a complete environment. NeWS is more flexible that any other window system I have ever seen, and it has solved problems that the people using X windows won't solve for years, if ever. Yes, NeWS is neither public domain, nor 100% portable. Building applications using NeWS is like building applications using the Mac toolbox. :-) -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett