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From: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS on the MacII - Finder version?
Message-ID: <2221@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 88 19:46:58 GMT
References: <8805030706.AA16527@brillig.umd.edu>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <8805030706.AA16527@brillig.umd.edu> jpmuller@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Peter Muller) writes:
>Does anybody out there know of any plans for, products for NeWS on the MacII
>sitting on top of or underneath the Finder rather than A/UX?

>Does the A/UX version imply that Apple will at long last have a window
>interface to the MacII running A/UX? If so, who is going to customise it
>so that it looks like the "real thing"?

   As I understand it {I might be wrong} apple isn't going with NeWS, they're
using X-Windows for their A/UX.
   I'm not sure I understand you second question?  What's the real thing.  
You can make calls to the Macintosh's "presentation manager" from both
A/UX and the Macintosh OS.  And if you write your code in MPW C then
you can compile it with "very limited" modifications under A/UX and it wil
will run.  And what do you mean by the real thing, Apple's had a Windowing
system for 4 years now, sounds pretty real to me.

David M. O'Rourke

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