Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!hc!tomlin
From: tomlin@hc.DSPO.GOV (Bob Tomlinson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Traffic on the X list
Message-ID: <14318@hc.DSPO.GOV>
Date: 2 Jul 88 02:08:28 GMT
References: <23581@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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in article <23581@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) says:
> ...
> ...	Lots of stuff about NeWS cost on 10-100 workstations.
> ...
> Right now it sort of sits in the well of this energy threshold,
> wondering if tomorrow's mailbox will just sort of have a tape of it
> sitting there, and I'm trying to figure out the Widgets library and
> putting up CLX and trying to get it to do something, maybe with PCL,
> and porting the X software to things like Encores and...

Meanwhile the NeWS client side is trivially portable to Encores
(as well as MIPS, Alliant, etc.) and is actually being used in large
distributed applications that would *kill* a network if the applications
were using X.  Free ain't always everything.

I wonder how much of a difference there is in actual cost when you
consider you get ~$60 of manuals (not to mention the tape) for your
$100 NeWS license fee.  Nutshell sells their X manuals documenting
X's hundreds of calls and thousands of arguments for $60.  Pretty similar
prices.

NeWS right to use licenses are $25 (that's $2,500 for your 100 workstations).
Isn't that about the price of 1 compiler for a VMS 11/780 for 1 year?
My haven't times changed.

	-- bob
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