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From: fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT alternatives
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Date: 11 Apr 89 01:15:43 GMT
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In-reply-to: jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM's message of 6 Apr 89 04:28:47 GMT


In article <7470@zodiac.UUCP> jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM (John Nelson) writes:
>Anyway, the world seems to be buying into X Windows wholesale so maybe
>someone should be porting X to the NeXT and driving the DP display
>with X.

Not so fast. There's quite an activity in the NeWS camp. You can have
NeWS for MS/DOS (yuck), OS/2 (yuck/2), Mac, and, of course, UNIX. NeWS
ports are coming out very fast, they seem to be easy to do. That could
be *very* important.

Just wait 'till the X11/NeWS server is out :-).

/Lars
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