Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!benoni 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 Lines: 20 in article <11199@jade.BBN.COM>, mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) says: ... > 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) ---------------- Naturally my opinions are my own.