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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: NCS vs NFS+rpc (In Japanese/Kanji)
Message-ID: <1864@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 88 02:42:02 GMT
References: <7075@etlcom.etl.JUNET> <3b57a3de.13422@apollo.uucp> <4673@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <4673@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William Sommerfeld) writes:
> The cause of the recent dispute between Nat Mishkin and Geoff Arnold
> is reminiscent of another goof by Sun's marketing which occurred
Why do you think it is necessarily a "goof".  Apollo licensed a Sun product.
That's a simple fact.  Whether Apollo chose to include Sun's RPC package
is Apollo's business.  

> process of attempting to make it as widespread as possible.  NeWS was
> just beginning to rear its head out of Sun.  Some Sun marketing person
> put out a press release claiming that MIT was dropping X in favor of
> NeWS.  JG & RWS were understandibly very upset about this.

Speaking of NeWS, (again) a number of companies are developing merged
X11/NeWS ports - Sun, Silicon Graphics (it already done and is being
shown), Santa Cruz Operations (the Xenix folks will offer one).  Will
Apollo offer NeWS/X11?  Having looked at X11 and NeWS, X11 looks pretty
weak.
Gee...while i'm in an inquisitive mood...here are some more questions
for you Apollo guys.
Will Apollo be adopting the AT&T/Sun/Xerox Open Look
user interface?  (Given now that Lotus and Ashton-Tate will be writing
for Unix System V Release 4.0) Will Apollo adopt System V Release 4.0?
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