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From: siegel@hc.DSPO.GOV (josh Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: News or X?
Message-ID: <16411@hc.DSPO.GOV>
Date: 8 Jun 89 16:32:00 GMT
References: <286@shrike.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM>
Reply-To: siegel@hc.dspo.gov.UUCP (Josh siegel)
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Organization: Group MEE-10, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
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In article <286@shrike.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM> aihaug@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM (Daniel A Haug) writes:

<I am about to embark on some interface work that will lay the ground work
<for the next 18 months of a particular project.  I have a long term
<question: which standard is better to pursue, X, or NeWS?  This will
<be on a Silicon Graphics, and possibly eventually on a Sun.  I've
<heard that NeWS is dead.  Is this true?  When will there be solid
<vendor support for X?

What do you want to do? Fancy interfaces?  CAD?

NeWS is NOT dead! It's just that everybody can't drive a Porshe.

Silicon Graphics is going to support NeWS/X11 but currently are distributing
only NeWS (Forsight) since NeWS/X11 isn't out.  Sun wrote NeWS/X11 and 
will be supporting it.  A lot of venders are going to be using NeWS/X11 
because it both gives them the best of both worlds AND sun is going to 
be supporting it.

Come to USENIX and we can show you all that can be done with NeWS in 
outrageously small amounts of code before you decide.  There will be
lots of NeWS and X11 experts in the NeWSnix booth.

<dan haug

Josh Siegel
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Josh Siegel		(siegel@hc.dspo.gov)
"Oh well.. I guess I will just bury my guns... sigh.. " - Standard Gun Owner