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From: don@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Don Hopkins)
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Subject: NeWS product numbers and package description
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Date: Mon, 11-May-87 06:04:20 EDT
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Here are the product numbers for ordering the NeWS binary distribution
from Sun:

  * NEWSBIN-01 (1/4" tape + documentation + 1 Right to Use License  $100)
  * NEWSBIN-02 (1/2" tape + documentation + 1 Right to Use License  $100)
  * NEWSBIN-09 (documentation only  $75)

The documentation includes the NeWS Technical Overview, the 226 page
NeWS Manual, the Adobe PostScript Language Reference Manual, and the
Adobe PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook. On the tape are NeWS
server binaries for the Sun-2 and Sun-3. Included with C source code
are some utilities, cps (the C to PostScript interface constructor), a
terminal emulator, and a PostScript terminal driver for Gosling's
Emacs. It comes with the PostScript source for all of the NeWS
libraries, and a whole bunch of flashy demos. There's also as a set of
fonts, over 6 megabytes of images, and manual pages for it all.

Those prices are for anyone, not just universities. The two Adobe
PostScriptures themselves are $40 worth of manuals.

The release notes mention that NeWS Release 1.0 is targeted mainly for
application developers. That means that there is not yet a lot of
stuff developed for it, and that there things that are destined to
change. Parts of the system are somewhat preliminary, but there's
enough there for it to be quite usable.

You should be running Sun Unix Release 3.2, or greater. There is a
patch to get it to run under earlier releases, but performance
suffers, and parts of the system will not work properly.

And yes, they are shipping now!

	-Don