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From: cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[mav])
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Request for Postscript display for a Sun
Summary: X/NeWS - it already exists (sort of)
	but it's not bundled with SunOS4.0
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Date: 17 Aug 89 14:37:28 GMT
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In article <15305@duke.cs.duke.edu>
[Speaking about the cost of NeWS and how to obtain it]:
> You could call SUN now and pay $100 (educational I think) and get the latest
> version of NeWS  ... or ... you could wait until the next OS release
> 4.0.x or 4.1 or whatever it will end up being and get it FREE! The new

The latest version is 4.0.3, and they promise to include X/NeWS with it
"as soon as it's available".  The official release date, I think,
was July 29th.  I think they missed that one.

> X11/NeWS Server will be included soon with all future versions of SUN OS.
> It will allow you to run X11 clients, Sunview tools (suntools), or
> NeWS applications. It does come with a postscript previewer which is quite
> nice. If you want to become a beta test site, try calling your local SUN Rep.

They may be behind, the beta test is over (or almost over).

Actually, X/NeWS is really nice from what I know of it.
It runs X and NeWS application faster than the current X
and NeWS offerings from Sun (not difficult on the X side
except for the X11r4 server, which may be faster than X/NeWS but
I'm not sure).  It will also support Open Look compatible toolkits for X
(the AT&T toolkit and an X rewrite of the SunView toolkit)
and for NeWS (NDE).  I don't think they'll have a Motif toolkit
any time soon :-).


Anyway, you should read comp.windows.news if your interested.
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