Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-vax!jim 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 Message-ID: <4425@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 8 Jul 88 14:52:00 GMT References:<10250002@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> <20091@wlbr.EATON.COM> Sender: jim@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU Organization: some random window system organization Lines: 12 > 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