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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT alternatives
Message-ID: <3848@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 13 Apr 89 14:04:38 GMT
References: <12192@reed.UUCP> <700@adobe.UUCP> <7470@zodiac.UUCP> <1698@iesd.dk>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <1698@iesd.dk>, fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes:
> 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.

There's one for the Amiga too, though I don't know if it's available yet.
I have just started working with X-windows, by the way. I have one word for
it... YECHHHH. Surely an 80386 can do better than the 68000 in my Amiga at
home, but it's soooo slow. And it's not even programmable.

Oh for a NeWS/Display Postscript merge. NeWS/NeXT.
-- 
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