Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!netsys!ames!hc!siegel
From: siegel@hc.DSPO.GOV (josh Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: latest sun-4 news server, reliable?
Message-ID: <14395@hc.DSPO.GOV>
Date: 8 Oct 88 17:20:51 GMT
References: <4351@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: siegel@hc.dspo.gov.UUCP (Josh siegel)
Organization: Group E-10, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
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In article <4351@polya.Stanford.EDU> ham@polya.stanford.EDU (Peter R. Ham) writes:
 >
 >At stanford, we just got a bunch of Sun 4's.  Is the latest
 >version of NeWS that comes with sun 4's reliable enough for
 >development work?

definitly... we have developed several very large applications
under NeWS now.

 >
 >One of the arguments against NeWS is that all of the
 >available implementations are too buggy.

Not the release of NeWS 1.1... it is for the most part very
clean.

 >
 >Also, is there any public on-line documentation about NeWS
 >(like a manual), so that I can make a better decision about
 >what system to use.  Peter

nope. Not that I know of.  Don't you have a manual?  You said
it came with your machine.

 >
 >
			--Josh Siegel
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Josh Siegel		(siegel@hc.dspo.gov)
I like using a C-47A "puff dragon" to go shooting beer cans with.