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From: mikew@wyse1.wyse.com (Mike Wexler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Toolkit for NeWS
Message-ID: <44@wyse1.wyse.com>
Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 12:10:09 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 24 12:10:09 1987
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Summary: here's the gist of what sun told me

]]    From: Andre Marquis <Bodick@cis.upenn.edu>
]]    I'm still wondering if there is going to be a standard user-interface
]]    (similar to SunView if need be) toolkit for NeWS.  I talked breifly with
]]    Saul Wold of Sun (I'm not sure what his position with them is.) and he
]]    indicated that there is nothing on the horizon.  Is this indicative of Sun's
]]    long term commitment to NeWS?

I would like to through in my two bits.  First of all, when they announced
news they said they where going to upgrade SunView to use it.  They also
said there would be a few incompatibilities(This years old and from 
memory so correct me if I'm wrong.).  They planned on have News running
Sun OS 4.0.
When I talked to them a few days ago, heres what they told me.  Due
to the industry misunderstanding their committment to X, they are
holding up the release of NeWS ontop of Sun OS until the get the NeWs/X
port done.
My interpretation is that in mid-next year when they get the port
done they will probably put it on top of SUN OS 5 or 6 and integrate
it with SunView.  There will be a few incompatibilities with SunView
and many extensions.
BTW, they made it extremely clear that they don't want people to think
they are favoring NeWS over X, and that this was holding them back from
doing everything they wanted to do with NeWS.