Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Help: definitions and terminology Message-ID: <1738@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 15:22:42 EDT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1738 Posted: Sat Apr 25 15:22:42 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 21:36:27 EDT References: <1699@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <2393@bacall.UUCP> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 33 In article <2393@bacall.UUCP> papa@bacall.UUCP (Marco Papa) writes: > >While it is true that X REQUIRES Berkeley style UNIX, this is not true at >all for Sun's NeWS. A NeWS server "can run as an application on a single >process personal computer or bitmapped terminal, communicating with clients >on some multi-process system via a phone line or network". NeWs has been >written with portability in mind. Sun has shown a version of NeWS running >on the Atari ST over 1200 baud phone lines. And note that the Atari does not >even support multiprocessing. NeWS implements its own lightweight type >of processes. Porting NeWS to the Amiga should be fairly easy, though a >source licence will cost $25,000 to a private company, and $1000 to a >University. The quoted paragraph is from Sun's "NeWS Preliminary >Technical Overview". Ok, I'm feeling a little better now. NeWS has a split personality. An interpreter/rendering agent that runs on any "intelligent" graphics terminal and some host software that tells it what to do. Now, agreed that the terminal software can be ported to almost machine or OS, what are the characteristics of the Host software? Has anyone ported it to a non-Sun, non-Berkeley machine yet? Does the source license include both halves? What does it look like from the programmers point of view? The oprating systems POV (I wanna shell here!)? Am I confused? -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)