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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!Norway.EU.net!online.no!hydro.com!news From: Birger Wathne <Birger.Wathne@nho.hydro.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1 Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 18:28:41 +0100 Organization: Norsk Hydro Lines: 20 Message-ID: <32B040C9.14A6@nho.hydro.com> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <58invm$s4b@abyss.west.sun.com> <58k7hn$nur@web.nmti.com> <32AFC7D6.13728473@lehman.com> <58pdep$mk8@web.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bgedsu02.nho.hydro.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:92329 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1792 comp.unix.internals:11590 comp.unix.osf.osf1:17018 Peter da Silva wrote: > > (and I mourn for NeWS as well, but that's another issue.) > (DPS ain't the same thing) > > -- > </peter> NeWS was wonderful, but too demanding for the hardware in those days. Not to mention that Sun screwed up the marketing. But I still remember all the fun I had with NeWS 0.9 pre-beta :) Now Java will give some of the same benefits, but with a far better programming language. -- Birger Wathne Birger.Wathne@nho.hydro.com | These addresses may *not* be Birger.Wathne@sdata.no | used for unsolicited mailing