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From: pablo@polygen.uucp (Pablo Halpern)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS on non-Sun hardware?
Message-ID: <20@polygen.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 88 00:26:02 GMT
References: <8801082123.AA11634@ondine.LOCAL> <38382@sun.uucp> <1676@sics.se>
Reply-To: pablo@polygen.UUCP (Pablo Halpern)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <1676@sics.se> hans@sics.UUCP (Hans Eriksson) writes:
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>Isn't there anyone who does a NeWS port for the Mac's? I have heard about
>one company but has forgotten their name. Anyone else who knows?
>
>/hans
>
>-- 
>Hans Eriksson
>Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Box 1263, S-163 13  SPANGA, Sweden
>Tel: +46 8 750 79 70	Ttx: 812 61 54 SICS S	Fax: +46 8 751 72 30
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In article <1676@sics.se> hans@sics.UUCP (Hans Eriksson) writes:
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>Isn't there anyone who does a NeWS port for the Mac's? I have heard about
>one company but has forgotten their name. Anyone else who knows?
>
 
eXP Inc, from Cambridge, Mass WAS doing a NeWS (server) port for the Mac.
Unfortunately, they went bankrupt.  I don't know what the disposition
of the existing code will be, but I'll bet it will just die.  Too bad!

As to the larger question of NeWS on non-Sun hardware: I just returned
from an X-windows conference at MIT.  An engineer from Sun gave a talk on
how Sun is merging the NeWS and X servers.  As an aside, she mentioned
that Sun and ATT are putting the merged product into the code
that you get with a Unix source license.  Unless I'm mistaken, that
means that most Unix workstations will eventually support both NeWS and
X.  I've got to hand it to Sun (and, grudgingly, to ATT), they may 
actually win the battle to unify Unix and, although I don't think
they'll beat X, they might not get beaten by X, either.  After all,
"if you can't beat them, merge them!"  Words to hack by.
 
Pablo Halpern
Polygen Corp.