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From: root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Memory and the A2024 Hedley monitor.
Summary: Credit: where it's due and where it's not
Message-ID: <1543@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 26 Aug 88 19:18:49 GMT
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In article <647@super.ORG>, rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
> In article <12011@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
> esp. if it sounds like a good implementation. In theory NeWS looks
> a lot better, but it is beginning to look like it has lost the race.

	Not necessarily.  Sun claims they will have a merged X/NeWS out
	"next year".  Of course if you're running in a Sun system then
	NeWS is important.  X vs NeWS is religion, so I'll not comment on
	it here.

>    One thing i hope C= does is positions the A500 as the cheapest 
> X terminal around. That would be neat. For the price of a smart terminal
> ($1000 or so) you can get a machine that talks X. Replace all your
> terminals with X servers! Fun. That ought to be very attractive to
> universities- esp. if C= makes the Amiga X sources available
> for nominal fee.
>    But when will X come out? Commodore?? any hints?

	Maybe this is an honest mistake, ie Dale Luck == Commodore.  The
	version of X windows that was shown at Siggraph AND at Xhibition
	this week was done by Boing, Inc.  Not Commodore.  The person
	who did the port was Dale Luck.  Not Commodore.  Let's make sure
	that the credit for this goes to Dale - he has done a superb job
	on it.

> terminals with X servers! Fun. That ought to be very attractive to
> universities- esp. if C= makes the Amiga X sources available
> for nominal fee.

	This is bullsh*t.  Why is it only the Amiga market where people
	insist on having source before they buy a product?  Gheesh.  If I
	had just spent a year getting a really nice implementation of X
	going on the Amiga, the very last thing on earth I would ever
	consider is giving away source for free.  To potential competitors.

>    But when will X come out? Commodore?? any hints?

	Don't ask Commodore, ask Boing.

> ron

					Rick Spanbauer
					Ameristar Technology