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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why X and NeWS
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Date: 26 Aug 88 14:23:33 GMT
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In article <8808260825.AA08669@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>don't know about NeWS, but suspect it would have advantages over X in a
>non-networked machine.
NeWS probably would. There is the other question of whether NeWS
is going to attain the critical mass of users and support needed to
survive (sound familiar?). There seems to be a lot of despair in 
comp.windows.news nowadays, the general feeling being that NeWS
has blown it by not being real enough soon enough, and that 
X has won the race. I am afraid I share that opinion. Pity, too, 
i really like NeWS a lot, but it is clear that it probably 
won't be out of the gate before X has taken the title of 'standard'.
ron