hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) (04/19/88)
The best guess seems to be that asking for a choice between NeWS and X is going to become increasingly irrelevant. Sun's window system will support both. Despite various grumblings of discontent, I expect the major Unix vendors to follow suit (particularly if System V as distributed by ATT -- which most vendors are licensed for -- comes to include the NeWS/X code. As I recall, the Sun/ATT announcements imply that this will be the case). At that point, it's going to look a lot like an argument over whether Fortran or C is "better": people will pick the system that seems to make it easiest to develop their application. End users won't be very much affected, since you can implement a given style of user interface with either system, and those applications will co-exist. We won't get rid of either X or NeWS, any more than we'll get rid of any of the major programming languages, because there will be lots of developers who feel it is the best way to get their job done.