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From: mh@wlbr.EATON.COM (Mike Hoegeman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Why I'm suspicious of comp.windows.misc experts
Message-ID: <1180@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 88 00:01:44 GMT
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I've been using NeWS for about 3 or 4 months now (version 1.0) and I'm
extremely impressed with it. The only previous window system I've worked
with (other than just playing around) is the Mac window stuff.  I definitely 
would take NeWS over the Mac toolbox any day. Some of my co-workers have used 
MS windows and X-windows. They also prefer NeWS. The NeWS extensions to 
postscript are pretty seamless and do not strike you as being "warts". 

As far as portability goes, I've taken a cursory look at the NeWS server
code and it looks like ALOT of effort went into making NeWS portable.
NeWS looks like it was designed to be portable from day one. I don't
know too much about X11 but if it's anything like the X10 code, NeWS
wins hands down portability-wise.