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From: jim@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: X vs NeWS - was --> is news loosing the battle?
Summary: low end window system boxes
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Date: 8 Jul 88 14:52:00 GMT
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>               NeWS runs quit nicely on Macs and amigas and 386's.  I don't
> really think anybody is going to bother running X or NeWS on anything smaller
> than those type of machines.

It depends on whether or not you count the new window system terminals as
smaller machines.  Also, people are already using machines with 80286's to run
window system servers (and have been for over 2 years).  It might not be
blindingly fast, but for organizations that have a heavy investment in PCs, it
is a good solution. 

Jim Fulton
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science