Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: AARRGGHH X11/NeWS AARRGGHH Keywords: Software Message-ID: <3928@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 13 Dec 89 19:58:20 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 20 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Refs: Original: v8n209 X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 225, message 1 of 16 In article <3406@brazos.Rice.edu> canon!smith@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (Mark Smith) writes: Mark> X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 209, message 2 of 14 Mark> I can't stand it. Back in the summer, we saw the X11/NeWS Beta release Mark> running at Sun here in the UK. It looked to be ready Real-Soon-Now. At the Mark> time, we understood that FCS was expected sometime in September. Here it Mark> is, the end of November, and we keep hearing how it's delayed here, it's Mark> on hold in the U.S., etc. etc. Meanwhile, messages show up on the net Mark> which suggest some people actually have it in their hands. Does anyone Mark> know what's really happening? I'll take semi-substantiated rumours at this Mark> point. The only rumor that I can supply (my source is a Sun employee) is that Sun had selected 200 sites that were to recieve the software at FCS. Penn State was not on this list. We sent in our order the day after Sun announced availability in the US. Nothing has shown up yet. Guess it is time to bug my Sun sales rep. :-( Dan Ehrlich