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From: dawson@apollo.uucp (Keith Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS on non-Sun hardware?
Message-ID: <3a06a194.c32@apollo.uucp>
Date: 1 Feb 88 17:04:00 GMT
Reply-To: dawson@apollo.UUCP (Keith Dawson)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In a recent article siegel@hc.dspo.gov (Josh Siegel) writes:

 > 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?
   
 > As far as I know, Apollo, Silicon Graphics, and Raster Tech  are just a few
 > of the people who are jumping on the NeWS band wagon.  Also,
 > Encore, Allient, and Celerity are some of the companies that
 > will be supporting the client side at least.

Apollo currently has no plans to support the NeWS product. Apollo's window
strategy is based on the X Window System.  

Apollo's Open Dialogue UIMS, along with other recent developments such as
Adobe's Display PostScript product, address the issues of user interface 
development and PostScript capabilities under X in a manner we feel to be
superior to NeWS. Another advantage is that X is a public-domain window
system, making it accessable to the entire industry. 

Most important of all it the fact that the marketplace has chosen X as the
industry standard window system.                                              
   

    Ross Chapman, Apollo Computer
    !decvax!apollo!chapman_r