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From: root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Systems Staff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: NeWS for the amiga
Message-ID: <5209@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 90 01:39:29 GMT
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In article <MWM.90Feb8135438@raven.pa.dec.com> mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Under Construction) Meyer) writes:
>>> People wanting a network windowing system on the Amiga should check out 
>>> the X11 offering by GfxBase.
>>> 
>>> 					Rick Spanbauer
>>>					Ameristar Technology
>
>What should those of us who want a server with a spiffy interpretive
>interface (ala Postscript & psh) do, then?
>
>	<mike
>--
>Don't tell me how to live my life			Mike Meyer

That's easy: start a company, buy NeWS license from Sun, port X11/NeWS, 
and sell the results as AmigaNeWS.  Sell 25 copies.  Or input the necessary 
cycles into building up ghostscript and then use it with the X11 port.  Or 
one could always drop $100K (?) on Adobe and ask them to port Display
Postscript to the Amiga.

Seriously, I like NeWS as much as the next guy but unless someone wants
to go broke trying to sell it in the Amiga market, the X11 port is the
only real solution to a networking window system on AmigaDOS.  What
happens under Amiga Unix is another story, of course.

					Rick