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From: cyrus@pprg.unm.edu (Tait Cyrus)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS running on VAX
Keywords: VAX
Message-ID: <23681@pprg.unm.edu>
Date: 8 Dec 88 21:27:18 GMT
References: <23677@pprg.unm.edu> <24843@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Reply-To: cyrus@pprg.unm.edu (Tait Cyrus)
Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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In article <24843@wlbr.EATON.COM> mh@wlbr.eaton.com.UUCP (Mike Hoegeman) writes:
>In article <23677@pprg.unm.edu> cyrus@pprg.unm.edu (Tait Cyrus) writes:
>>Has anyone taken the NeWS source and ported it to a VAX?  I don't mean
>>ported the client to run on a VAX, I mean ported the server to run AND
>>display on a VAX.  If not, know of anyone who has at least tried?
>
>I've seen NeWS running on a b&w ultrix vaxstation (don't know what
>kind) in sun booths on occasion. I think sun themselves did it to
>demonstrate how portable NeWS was but take that with a grain of salt.

Hmm, well no one seems to know too much about NeWS running on a VAX,
whether Ultrix or VMS.  I guess Sun wants to keep it quiet, even
from themselves because I received a reply from someone at Sun requesting
information on any positive replies I received :^)

Some folks say that there is a port in the NeWS source, but I have
not seen any such animal in the source that is available for me to look at.
If such an animal exists, I would have expected that someone would be
running it, but as of yet I have not received anything saying that
"yes we are running NeWS on our VAX".

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W. Tait Cyrus   (505) 277-0806		e-mail: cyrus@pprg.unm.edu
University of New Mexico			
Dept of ECE - Parallel Processing Research Group
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131