Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpf!spock
From: spock@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Has X Won the Window Wars? (was Re: Is NeWS UseABLE?)
Message-ID: <6002@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 88 14:53:51 GMT
References: <229.8808111329@jura.ritd.co.uk> <1082@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <66437@sun.uucp> <13317@jumbo.dec.com>
Reply-To: spock@ihlpf.UUCP (Ed-Weiss)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <13317@jumbo.dec.com> jg@jumbo.UUCP (Jim Gettys) writes:
>NeWS has serious limitations itself.  I used to be paid to write code that 
>X supports easily, and NeWS is not able to support at all.  I personally
>consider X's limitations, such as they are, less of a problem than
>NeWS limitations, as they are.

I have seen a number of articles that give X's shortcomings, but
I can't think of one that gives NeWS's.  Can you give the NeWS
limitations?
-- 

Ed Weiss	   "I thought it was generally accepted, sir, that
att!ihlpf!spock     vulcans are an advanced and most honorable race."
		   "They are, they are.  And damn annoying at times."