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From: phil@SCRIPPS.EDU (Phil Cohen)
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Subject: Re: What is SUN doing?
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Date: 3 Mar 90 00:16:14 GMT
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A guy from Solbourne was here yesterday.  He was an ex-SUN
employee and was interested in talking about why we like NeWS
so much.  Anyway, one thing led to another and he told me that
for a while he had close ties to MasPar.  The prez of MasPar
is an ex-VP of DEC and it turns out that DEC had decided that
there was no way that they were going to allow SUN to pull off
another "NFS phenomenon" with NeWS.  From what my source said,
it seems there were unlimited funds available for shooting down
NeWS.

Like I said, make OW a line item on all your future workstation
purchases.  Do not do business with those that neglect to port OW
to System 5 Release 4.

I remember when we had to do the same thing in the early days of
TCP/IP and NFS in order to get the attention of vendors.  Of course,
then there was no X11 arround to confuse the issues.

Phil

My favorite reason for liking NeWS?  You get the source for everything.