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Article #5807Re: NeWS
From: Lars Peter Fischer
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:30
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:30
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>>>>> "Henry" == Henry McGilton (henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us) Henry> One would not want to bet too much of anything on NeWS. When Henry> you cut through all the dross, posturing, and face saving, NeWS Henry> is essentially a dead duck. That, unfortunately, seems to be true. There is no official word out of Sun yet, but with the recent deal with Adobe to "integrate Display PostScript into the Solaris environment" there can be little doubt about it. This is (to cite a fine Jagger & Richards song) Sad, Sad, Sad. NeWS was such a fine idea and had some many good points. NeWS is dead. May its ideas live and prosper. /Lars -- Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk | It takes an uncommon mind to think of CS Dept., Aalborg Univ., DENMARK. | these things. -- Calvin
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!aud.dk!vaxc.aud.auc.dk!fischer From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Peter Fischer) Subject: Re: NeWS In-Reply-To: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us's message of Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17: 18:30 GMT Message-ID: <FISCHER.92Dec21233049@orange.iesd.auc.dk> Sender: news@vaxc.aud.auc.dk (USENET News System) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University References: <1992Dec17.205058.12133@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU> <1992Dec18.171830.13334@trilithon.mpk.ca.us> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:30:49 GMT Lines: 21