gnu@hoptoad.UUCP (John Gilmore) (05/05/87)
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 87 16:29:05 PDT From: hoptoad.UUCP!gnu@cgl.ucsf.edu (John Gilmore) Subject: binary copies of NeWS are shipping Sun is taking orders for NeWS and shipped the first copies of it more than a week ago. You can order it through your sales rep, if you are on speaking terms with him or her (we aren't, currently, because I gave him the info below and he couldn't figure out how to order it for us some weeks ago.) Note that this is binary copies of the NeWS server (PostScript interpreter) but all the window management code is written in PostScript and is released in source. This version does not have the merged X windows stuff or the eventual SunView-compatible programmer's interface. You write window applications by writing part in C and part in PostScript and it provides the glue so you can just call the PostScript routines as if they were written in C (like remote procedure calls). It can run some X10.4 software as if it was an X server, and you can run existing binary or source SunView applications at the same time (NeWS pretends to be the background window of SunView, and gets out of the way of any SunView windows that pop up 'covering' the background.) You can order: Newsbin3-01 Sun-3 1/4'' tape, manuals, ... $100 Newsbin3-02 Sun-3 1/2'' tape, manuals, ... $100 I don't know if it is available for Sun-2 -- I forgot to ask. It is unfortunately NOT available through the Sun 800-number order line. John Gilmore