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From: msc@ramoth.SGI.COM (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS on non-Sun hardware?
Message-ID: <9564@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 88 02:13:28 GMT
References: <1970@pdn.UUCP> <1256@mips.UUCP>
Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA
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Summary: More NeWS on MIPS

In article <1256@mips.UUCP>, hansen@mips.UUCP (Craig Hansen) writes:
> 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.

You can also get NeWS on MIPS hardware from Silicon Graphics.  The next
software release for the Iris 4-D family includes a NeWS-based window
system to replace mex.

The new Silicon Graphics release includes a version of X11 that runs
alongside NeWS with the NeWS window manager being in control.

Whitechapel offers a choice of window system in the price of their product,
which is called the Hitech 10.  The choices are NeWS or X.  

Both products have good fast ports of NeWS.  They are both based on
NeWS R1.0 because the timing for R1.1 wasn't quite right.
--
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
msc@sgi.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl,sun}!sgi!msc
"There is much virtue in a window.  It is to a human being as a frame is to
a painting, as a proscenium to a play.  It strongly defines its content."