Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!eos!shelby!portia!jim From: jim@kaos.Stanford.EDU (Jim Helman) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: News or X? Message-ID: Date: 9 Jun 89 22:13:08 GMT References: <8906081802.AA16552@scarlett.sun.com> Sender: USENET News System Organization: Stanford University Lines: 16 In-reply-to: dkmann@SUN.COM's message of 8 Jun 89 19:48:49 GMT Personally, I think NeWS is cool as hell (if not hot as hell). But most of our work is image and bitmap oriented, and X seems to have an edge on those counts. > Silicon Graphics is going to support NeWS/X11 but currently are distributing > only NeWS (Forsight) since NeWS/X11 isn't out. A version (source + binaries) of X11R3 which runs in conjunction with 4Sight can be obtained from SGI. We're running it on our 4D box, and it works reasonably well. I think SGI will begin shipping X with the standard distribution tapes some time this year. Jim Helman Department of Applied Physics P.O. Box 10494 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94309 (jim@thrush.stanford.edu) (415) 723-4940