marshall@software.ORG (Eric Marshall) (12/14/88)
Depending on who you are and what you believe in, here is some good/bad news from the recent Sun User Group conference held in Miami Beach concerning Sun's merged NeWS and X11 server and their View2 Open Look toolkit. The first custom shipping date of the merged server is July 1989. The View2 toolkit is also to be released in July. Both the merged server and View2-based applications were demonstrated at the conference. Using the CalComp benchmark, the speed of the server is currently about twice that of the R2 black and white server, and its static size is also about twice that of the same R2 server. Sun showed speed and size measurements of the merged server over its development, and the server is getting both faster and smaller. At least for the initial release of the server, Sun is recommending that the server is run on machines with at least 8 MB of main memory, though it can run on 4 MB systems, although more slowly. Just thought you'd like to know. Eric Marshall Software Productivity Consortium 1880 North Campus Commons Drive Reston, VA 22091 (703) 391-1838 CSNET: marshall@software.org ARPANET: marshall%software.org@relay.cs.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's quote: Donal O'Shea (an OSF VP) on System V.4: "It's not of sufficient quality. People can't put commercial applications on it."