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From: greg@gergle.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Best window system & Why
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Date: 5 Feb 88 06:53:23 GMT
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 >To tell the truth I don't see many people running NeWS on Apollo
 >machines, VAXstations (Unix and VMS), PCs, HP workstations, 3Bs or any
 >of the 386 Unix boxes though X is found on all such systems. 

I can only speak on one of the above, because that is where my expeirence ends.
I ported 1.0 NeWS to a monochrome Apollo DN3000 last spring, while at the
University of Michigan.  Why is the port just wasting disk space, instead
of being distributed?  Two reasons.  First, Apollo jumped on the X11 
bandwagon. Why, because NeWS was created by their arch-rival Sun.

Second, licensing restrictions on NeWS.  I figure I'm about as die hard
of a NeWS fan as they come, and part of me still hopes it will die a 
hideous and horrible death, because Sun didn't make it public domain,
so that it could have attained its true potential. 

>My feeling is the developers who
>pulled off NeWS should be congratulated.  But anyone in computer
>science knows you throw away your first couple of attempts at the
>development of a system and then do it right.  

It is my understanding, that NeWS source was tossed twice and what we 
see today is the third generation. 

	-Greg Cockroft