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From: laukee@canon.UUCP (David Lau-Kee)
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Subject: Docs for tNt, & what is Sun doing?
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Date: 28 Feb 90 01:24:33 GMT
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(a) 
Has anyone managed to get hold of any tNt documentation?  I mailed a sun 
address a few months ago which purported to be offering docs, got a reply,
and I am still waiting.  All I have is the codebook and SimpletNt stuff
which came off an archive server somewhere.  Is that it?

Has anyone got the codebook stuff to work under 2.0?  What is it supposed to
do?  Looks like it might be self documenting... shame it bombs before it tells
me anything.

(b)
Does any of the above matter?  Recent moves inside Sun suggest that the
%%% REMINDS %%% inside NeWS/OL*.ps might just sum up the future of NeWS, just
a memory of some unfinished business. Since the person who put them there may
be one of those who have moved from Sun I guess "easy migration between
platforms" rings true at last. Come on Sun, SORT IT OUT!!! We're getting
seriously pissed off at your reluctance to show any commitment to NeWS.

Issue a statement detailing your plans for NeWS (no "we're committed to
providing standards" bullshit please, you either will or won't continue
development and support of NeWS; if you will, then what are your plans?  How
many people are you going to have working on it?  Are they going to be
software engineers or distribution secretaries?  You had some good people
working on NeWS... have they all left in disgust?).

If you don't want to support it then that's just fine... give it to the OSF
and let someone else make a swan from your albatross.  If you won't develop /
support, and you refuse to let others do it, then you'll lose customers
because I, for one, would rather buy an abacus than deal with anyone that
pathetic.

[This is not necessarily the view of my employer]

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