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From: mh@wlbr.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Mike Hoegeman)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: parallax doesn't yet support X (properly)
Summary: NeWS works great on the parallax
Message-ID: <31901@wlbr.IMSD.CONTEL.COM>
Date: 3 Jun 89 00:38:47 GMT
References: <DOVE.89Jun1224145@rocket.UUCP>
Reply-To: mh@wlbr.imsd.contel.com.UUCP (Mike Hoegeman)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Contel FSD, Westlake Village, CA
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In article <DOVE.89Jun1224145@rocket.UUCP> dove@rocket.UUCP (Webster Dove) writes:
	>After seeing the article about video devices under X, I wanted to
	>mention that I have a parallax 1024x1280 that I got last Dec, and
	>Parallax has still not given me working X software for it.  They claim
	>that NEWS works, but I bought it after being told that X was available
	>only to find vapor.  They tell me it will work in the next release any
	>time now :)
	>--
	>		Dr. Webster Dove
	>		Computing Systems and Architectures
	>		Advanced Signal Processing Engineering (ASPEN) Dept.
	>		Sanders Associates (a Lockheed Company)

We have Parallax's version of NeWS on a bunch of machines here for
almost 2 years and it works great. So as far as NeWS goes it's
*definitely* more than a claim. Parallax has been pretty responsive in
all our dealings with them. (for what's worth).

-mike