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From: Cerys@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU ("Daniel L. Cerys")
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Subject: Re: NeWS Applications
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Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 02:48:01 EDT
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> In reference to NeWS on a Atari ST, I will remind people that a couple
> of months ago some announnced he had ported the NeWS server to the
> amiga.  Sun's reply was that the product could NOT distributed in any
> form.   

SUN held a NeWS technical seminar near Boston last week where they
described what could be done.  Of course, if you aren't using their
sources, you can do anything you want; SUN doesn't have any claim to
Postscript protocols.  There are commercial licenses you can obtain from
SUN for their "Portable NeWS" product.  I think the number they quoted
was something like $25K for all source and distribution rights.  With
X11 getting so much popularity, I consider even this to be restrictive.

SUN provided a list of all of the NeWS servers that have been
done.  The Amiga and MacIntosh II ports were done by third parties who
were present and introduced at the seminar.  The other ports are:
SUN, VAXstationII, Silicon Graphics, RasterTech, Atari ST, Apollo
DN3000, and HP9000.  I can't say anything about the availability of
these.