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From: hansen@mips.UUCP (Craig Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS on non-Sun hardware?
Message-ID: <1256@mips.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 18:47:36 GMT
References: <1970@pdn.UUCP>
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In article <1970@pdn.UUCP>, reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) writes:
>        I seem to remember hearing somewhere that Steve Jobs NeXT will be
> utilizing NeWS or some variant of NeWS in their forthcoming workstation
> products.  Anyone have any comments on this and any other hardware platforms
> that are jumping on the NeWS bandwagon?  Or is it X or nothing?

You can get NeWS on MIPS hardware: Whitechapel Workstations, in the U.K.,
is producing a 10+-MIPS MIPS-R2000-based workstation that runs UMIPS-BSD with
both X and NeWS. I have heard no current word of NeWS-only products, including
from Sun!

-- 
Craig Hansen
Manager, Architecture Development
MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
....{ames,decwrl,prls}!mips!hansen or hansen@mips.com