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From: pete@sinix.UUCP (Pete Delany)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: OpenWindows portability?
Keywords: Open-Windows-Portability
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.201529.10823@sinix.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 91 20:15:29 GMT
References: <1991Jun3.181455.2843@turing.ac.uk>
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In article <1991Jun3.181455.2843@turing.ac.uk> 
rudolf@turing.ac.uk (Jim Rudolf) writes:

  >I would like to find out what the chances are of using NeWS on non-Sun
  >hardware.  Essentially, it's the same as asking about the chances of
  >using OpenWindows on non-Sun hardware.
I think X/NeWS is rather Portable, I hacked the OpenWindows 1.0 release
that came with System V 4.0 to run on this old Sun3/160 running SunOS 3.2
(with 3.4 Upgrade) without too much trouble; though I must admit that 
X11R4 was trivial.

  >I have heard (at least second hand) of two possibilities:
  >
  >1)  Sun has contracted out to third parties to port OpenWindows to
  >    other platforms.
I've heard OpenWindows is being ported to other platforms, but I didn't 
hear that Sun was contracting it out. Though considering the quality of
the code it seems it might be a good market decision. 

  >
  >2)  While OpenWindows will be a part of SVR4, AT&T has apparently said
  >    that NeWS will be an optional part.
Thats right it is, works like a Gem on the 386.

   >Jim Rudolf
   >The Turing Institute
   >rudolf@turing.ac.uk
Oh, by the way, I'm using HyperNeWS 3.0 from The Turing Institute for 
Lock Manager documentation; it's great.  Is there going to be a 
OpenWindows 2.0 and/or tNt 2.0 release from Turing?

-pete