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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sun NeWS on the Amiga
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Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 13:19:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 20 13:19:46 1987
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For reasons that should seem patently obvious to anyone I can't make any
sweeping statements about NeWS on the Amiga. I can say that some people do
not think ahead to far before they say something. Which can be a bad thing
if it causes more problems than it solves, smoke aside I can address one of
Leo's statements :

In article <3577@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	I think the optimal solution would be for SUN to sell the Amiga
>version of NeWS, or license someone to sell it, with a return to SUN.
>After all, they wrote the bloody thing; they're entitled to *something*.
>All we can hope for is that they don't change SUN prices for it.

Sun sells the NeWS binary tape for Sun 3's for $100, what did you pay for
Dpaint?


--Chuck McManis
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