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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NeWS for the ST!
Message-ID: <1425@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 22:23:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 14 22:23:30 1987
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References: <484@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> <3746154a.9540@apollo.uucp>
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Summary: NeWS

In article <3746154a.9540@apollo.uucp>, hays@apollo.uucp (John Hays) writes:
> In article <484@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> mckay@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Dwight D Mckay) writes:
> X is probably more important from the point of view of who is behind it as a 
> standard (DEC,HP,APOLLO,ADOBE,...) and the fact that it is controlled by a
> university (MIT -- Non-proprietary).  The source is available for a minimal cost.
> If the NeWS people want to sell it for the ST, Great, I like options.
> -- 
> John D. Hays, 

Actually I think X is Dead On Arrival...(I've seen it on an IBM RT) ...
Some of the existing windowing systems like Sun Windows and Apollo's DM
windows are *much* nicer.
The value of X and NeWS lies in the server activity rather than the windows.
NeWS by most accounts is a more elegant...You are able to do some interesting
things like putting up circular windows, etc.  Further NeWS is postscript
based. The only imaginable reason that Apollo, DEC, and HP chose to go 
with X is that Sun was creating another standard that *they* would have 
to live with. The fact that there is a version that runs on an ST is
a testimony to it's flexability.  Other postings to this newsgroup have
already mentioned that some people already have given up on porting X
to the ST. Not exactly an ad for the system.  Incidentally, Sun currently
sells binary versions of NeWS for $100 (probably what MIT charges for
media)...

Now if Sun would only release an ST version of NeWS.....