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From: radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A Few Good Rumors... (NeWS on Mac)
Message-ID: <1375@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 22:26:56 GMT
References: <1406@csib.csi.UUCP> <1575@uhccux.UUCP> <330@esquire.UUCP> <1690@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Ab.
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Keywords: A/UX Unix FullWriter

In article <1690@ssc-vax.UUCP>, benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) writes:

> ... I'm not talking about a game.
> NeWS is a *networking* window system that is viewed by most
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> unjaundiced eyes to be superior to X11.  NeWS is entirely Postscript
                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^
> based and as such has a postscript shell, postscript previewer, etc.
                                     ^^^^^             ^^^^^^^^
> The Postscript extensions Sun put into NeWS make it an object-oriented,
                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> NeWS should be hitting the Mac world soon in the form of a port for
> A/UX (multi-tasking networking) and a port for Mac OS (non-multi-tasking).
> If you follow the discussions in comp.windows.misc much discussion has
> centered on NeWS and X11. I think when it does, it will be extremely
> popular.


Only, I hope, if they fix the bugs. The initial release rivals MicroSoft
Word 3.0 in flakyness. These two products make me wonder whether all the
stuff I teach students about the importance of reliability is wrong. The
market seems to like bells and whistles more than quality.
                     ^^^^^     ^^^^^^^^

    Radford Neal


PS: Doesn't anyone but me think that Word 3.01 is *still* flaky? My
    favourite is its occasional tendency to crash if you customize the
    menus - you then can't start Word until you delete its settings file
    from your system folder. Don't tell me it works for you - *most* of
    its bugs are non-deterministic. I think they clear random bits in
    their idle routine just to keep the users hopping :-) (or is that 
    hoping? hyping? ...)