[comp.sys.sun] ROOMS

bickel@nprdc.arpa (Steven Bickel) (01/19/89)

ISSTTH@NUSVM.BITNET (TNG TH) writes:
>Has anyone evaluated ROOMS from XEROX for the SUN? Is the software public
>domain? How can I get hold of it? Thanks.

It looks nice, has nice features but:

1) Sunview does not work with ROOMS.
2) X-windows do not work with ROOMS.
3) ROOMS is slower than Sunview.
4) Is not public domain and costs alot per machine.

We told them that when they fix 2 and 3 we would consider it.

Steve Bickel

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