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From: alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NeWS for the ST!
Message-ID: <167@geovision.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 11:03:34 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 18 11:03:34 1987
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In article <1425@ssc-vax.UUCP> benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) writes:
> [..several nested msgs on X vs NeWS omitted..]
>Actually I think X is Dead On Arrival...(I've seen it on an IBM RT) ...
  
  DOA on the ST, or in general?  (Personally, I wouldn't base my opinion
  of *any* software that I'd only seen run on IBM hardware - unless that's
  all it would run on)

>Some of the existing windowing systems like Sun Windows and Apollo's DM
>windows are *much* nicer.

  Maybe so, but at what time/space expense?

> [..more anti-X comments..]

 I don't want this to degenerate into  religious_wars.windows,  but
personally I'd like to see X for the ST.  Maybe it isn't the "best"
(whatever that means) window system, but I work with 4 different
mfg's hardware, and X runs on all of it (including the Suns).  Makes
software porting a lot easier.  It'd sure be nice to use some of that
on my ST, or to use my ST to develop software at home.
  X may have a few faults, but it *does* work, it *is* a standard,
and there's a lot of software out there based on it.   (Gad, I sound
like I'm justifying MS-DOS.  Oh well...)   So lay of the religious
wars.  X for the ST?  I'm all for it.
-- 
 Alastair JW Mayer     BIX: al
                      UUCP: ...!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!geovision!alastair

Let's build a base on the Moon on our way to the asteroids - forget Mars.