Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!datran2!smb From: smb@datran2.uunet (Steven M. Boker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: So how about X Summary: It may be some time. Message-ID: <431@datran2.uunet> Date: 12 Feb 90 02:26:15 GMT References: <1990Feb11.092939.17598@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> Organization: Data Transforms, Denver, CO Lines: 30 In article <1990Feb11.092939.17598@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>, cattelan@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Russell Cattelan) writes: > So now that it is almost a month past the supposed release of the > X11 Server for the cube, does any body have any information about it > or has it been neatly postponed? > I poked around quite a bit in January trying to get an answer to this very question. According to my sources, 1. NeXT is not working on or particularly interested in X. 2. Project Athena at MIT has been working on the port and has released alphas of varying quality to selected individuals. 3. There is only one person working on the port and that person is a student. Now that school is back in session this person has little if any time to devote to the project. Please correct me if I am wrong folks. Personally, I think that the sales people at NeXT would be very happy to see a working port of X. Its another arrow in their quiver when they try to make a sale. Given Steve Jobs attitude towards X, I doubt that NeXT will ever make a considered effort in that direction, or perhaps only as an afterthought. I know X is far from perfect, and I personally much prefer NeXTStep as a development environment, but its hard to get along ignoring such a large and open windowing connectivity standard. <> Anybody else heard anything? -- #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====# # Steve Boker # Black holes are how God divides by zero. # # smb@datran2.uunet.uu.net # ....I have my own methods. # #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#