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From: cwpjr@cbnewse.cb.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: NeWS "open" / "standard"?
Summary: wanna bet...
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.165122.12663@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
Date: 26 Jun 91 16:51:22 GMT
References: <91164.101625BROEKHVN@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <594@mitech.com>
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In article <594@mitech.com>, gjc@mitech.com writes:
> In article <91164.101625BROEKHVN@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>, BROEKHVN@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Kevin Broekhoven) writes:
> > 
> > In the May SunWorld, Scott McNeally
> > gives an interview where he compares "NeWS to X11" as "Unix to Dos", with
> > the implication that in some number of years, NeWS will be displacing X11.
> 
> Fantastic anology, perhaps. But an absurd prediction. 
> 

The future means throwing more mips at existing, hidebound, nothing
new under the sun software...

Therefore the more the software can shine with more mips the more likely
it will do better in the *future*...

I think diplay postscript will DO BETTER with these mips than "X"...

Clyde