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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Traffic on the X list
Message-ID: <2065@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 88 02:51:26 GMT
References: <11199@jade.BBN.COM>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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in article <11199@jade.BBN.COM>, mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) says:
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> Even more likely, it's because of the politics that prevent other
> vendors from supplying NeWS ports for their machines.
> 
> The $100 fee for NeWS binaries doesn't seem like a big impediment 
> to anyone who wants to run it on a Sun.  Of course, you don't get
> sources, but then again you don't tend to NEED sources to get 
> NeWS working, unlike certain other window systems we could name :-)

I tend to agree...certain other workstation vendors are probably
not interested in following behind Sun...interestingly by not having
a NeWS port they are stuck with X...and they wind up still 
following Sun who has will have X/NeWS...

having shown NeWS to some folks that have been using X on an RT they
are off looking at Suns...(because of NeWS)

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Naturally my opinions are my own.