Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: XNeXT on NextStep 2.0????? Message-ID: <68196@brunix.UUCP> Date: 12 Mar 91 06:42:00 GMT References: <1991Mar5.232508.20719@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> < <1991Mar7.140806.13975@wam.umd.edu>> <1991Mar10.120604.18434@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 26 In article jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) writes: >As I understand it, NeXT is being very unfriendly as far as telling >people what they need to know about writing alternative window >servers... except for the folks who are writing CoXist which has to be >paid $$$ for. I thought one idea behind X was that it was to be public >domain (read: free). NeXT, I think, welcomes ANY compatibility product. They do however not welcome products that try to turn a NeXT computer into a "SUN?HP?APOLLO?IBM?DEC?You name it"-type workstation. i.e. as long as NeXT stays next, that's ok, if you want to have another computer, they probably think you should buy another computer. coXist coexists with NextStep, MouseX replaces it. If you run SoftPC, that's welcome, if you want to port MS-DOS to the NeXT and turn the MegaPixell display into a Hercules or CGA cardin 80*25 character mode, then that's not welcome. Easy? If you WANT X or MS-DOS then buy an X-workstation or an MS-DOS PC (does this stand for Pocket Calculator??), if you want a NeXT and NEED to run X or MS-DOS once in a while, then buy SoftPC and coXist plus a NeXT. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet