milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) (07/21/89)
I'm assuming the answer here is yes...but just to make sure before
I make a recomendation...does news work ok on the new MIPS based
DECstation computers?
Greg Corson
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{pur-ee,rutgers,uunet}!iuvax!ndmath!miloavolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) (07/21/89)
NEWS? NeWS? Or news? Hmmm... Not NEWS, the Sony workstation. Not NeWS the SUN proprietary network extensible windowing system. You must mean usenet news software. Well, yes it does work. Fred
khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Marketing -- MTS) (07/21/89)
In article <2679@decuac.DEC.COM> avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) writes: > >NEWS? NeWS? Or news? Hmmm... Not NEWS, the Sony workstation. Not NeWS the SUN proprietary >network extensible windowing system. You must mean usenet news software. > NeWS is available on SGI, IBM PC's and Mac's (among other things). I don't know of any reason why it wouldn't work on the SPIM box (but I don't know anyone who is running it on one); and the licenses are cheap. Keith H. Bierman |*My thoughts are my own. Only my work belongs to Sun* It's Not My Fault | Marketing Technical Specialist ! kbierman@sun.com I Voted for Bill & | Languages and Performance Tools. Opus (* strange as it may seem, I do more engineering now *)
frank@croton.dec.com (Frank Wortner) (07/21/89)
If you mean USENET news software, it must work, or else how could I be replying to you? ;-) Regards, Frank
collins@unmvax.unm.edu (Bill Collins) (07/22/89)
I think it is the SUN proprietary windowing system NeWS(did I get the silly caps right? :-) is what was in question. That is, the SUN-proprietary- windowing-system-that-you-must-write-your-own-driver-NeWS. I have heard people porting it to QVSS and SM devices.(They did it themselves.) If you can not get it from someone else(perhaps on the net?), you'll have to write it. In this case you may wish to wait for X11R4 stuff to come in. X11R4 should have the server for the DECstation that you can steal. --Bill -- collins@unmvax.unm.edu gatech!unmvax!collins