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From: richard@pnet02.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
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Subject: Sun NEWS
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Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 18:55:20 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 19 18:55:20 1987
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I work for an Apollo shop, and my insistence that News is far superior than X
p*sses of a lot of Apollo folks. I'm a postscript junkie as well, and believe
that News will have a lot of milage to it when X has run out of gas.

I cornered on of the heads of Apollo SW R&D at a national user group meeting:

ME: Are you guys gonna support NEWS.
THEY: No way. Its proprietary.
ME: (Blather advantages of News vs. X)
THEY: Well, we may have some sort of kernel that supports both.

Funny, thats what Sun is doing.

I thought News licenses wer only $100 for the tape. Thats not an unreasonable
figure to get a complete postscript implementation for a screen. Is Sun
willing to let AmigaNews be distributed under any conditions ?

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