Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!nixctc!pete From: pete@nixctc.DE (Pete Delaney) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: OPEN LOOK Availability Keywords: X11 NeWS Message-ID: <1028@nixctc.DE> Date: 1 Apr 89 14:50:41 GMT References: <8903291906.AA10842@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> <1025@nixctc.DE> <11394@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <1627@iesd.dk> Reply-To: pete@relay.NixCTC.De (Pete Delaney) Organization: Nixdorf CIM Technology Center; Stuttgart, West Germany Lines: 37 In article <1627@iesd.dk> fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes: > >I seem to remember from a Sun briefing that this has been renamed >"Xview" (to emphasize that it is not tied to Sun), and that it will be >donated to MIT, for free distribution on the X tape. It should be >ready for distribution "sometime this spring..". > >Anyone care to comment? That sounds like what the a Sun technical support guru told me the-week-before-last while at the Hannover Fair. Unfortunately however I was unable to confirm it with Michael Arden (the Product Manager for NeWS). Her secetrary was able to send out a NeWS license form for $25,000 however I was hopeing the technical support guru at Hanover was correct. With this stupid OSF vs. UNIX Incorporated nonsense going on, I doubt I could get my management to sign off on a $25,000 license; and with X windows being accepted so well by the market I doubt the guys at Sun expect to sell many more of these $25k licenses any longer. I like programming NeWS more than X, perhaps because I started with it first, perhaps because it's easier. Clearly Po Cheung's xdbx and Don Hopkins CyberSpace make programing both of these windowing systems more enjoyable. I find Don's code (as well as that from Josh Siegel and Don Woods) particularly interesting. Having to switch back a forth between the X and NeWS server's is rather uncomfortable. I have asked the guys at Sun to be a beta for the X11/NeWS merge but haven't heard anything. I was hoping to try integrating it into one of the System V Release 3 (yek!) X servers but .... --pete -- Pete Delaney - Nixdorf UCC | pete@NIXCTC.DE Prefered Addr Loffel Strasse 3 | pyramid!nixctc!pete UUCP from Calf 7000 Stuttgart 70 | pete@RELAY.HUJI.AC.IL Backup Address West Germany | Phone: +49 (711) 7685-128