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From: hans@sics.se (Hans Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS for the Macintosh (Summary)
Message-ID: <2072@sics.se>
Date: 21 Jul 88 15:11:21 GMT
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Reply-To: hans@sics.UUCP (Hans Eriksson)
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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There are three companies doing NeWS for Macintoshes today:

Grasshopper Group	Hugh Daniel
	212 Clayton Street
	San Fransisco CA 94117
	+1 408 266-4783
	grasshopper@toad.com

	They do NeWS for A/UX on Macintosh. Some excerpts from their
	brouschure:
	* Works with NeWS servers from SUN, Silicon Graphics,
	  Whitechapel, Acorn
	* OPENLook will run under NeWS
	* "Complete client source is, of course, included"
	* run under A/UX 1.0 with A/UX supported monitors. minimum 4MB
	  RAM and 5MB disk is recommended.
	* $225 for release 1.1.01
	  extra machine on the same network $150
	  extra manual $25


Wedge Computer	Dick Bonsai
	2 Winter Street
	Waltham, MA 02154
	+1 617 891-1313

	They do NeWS for MacOS. I called them and they said
	they have "released" a beta-version with communicates with a
	SUN (yes it must be a SUN) via the seral line (no TCP/IP or
	netting so far). They are considering a TCP/IP version by the
	end of the year. The big release of the seral-line-version
	should be out by the end of this summer.

Liason 42	Robert Esbury
	Australia
	+61 612 922-7099

	They do NeWS for MacOS.  Due to time differenses (+9h) I have
	not been able to reach them. maybe someone else on the net (in
	Australia!)  could give it a try?


Unfortunately, no luck so far for me who want to run NeWS on MacOS
on TCP/IP to our SUNs. Unless Liason 42 show up to be something...

/hans
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Hans Eriksson
Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Box 1263, S-164 28 KISTA, Sweden
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