Future of 4Sight and X

Reinhard Doelz / Biocomputing Basel doelz at urz.unibas.ch
Tue Apr 10 00:42:38 AEST 1990


> Speaking for myself, this is very important information, because it
> means there is no real incentive to ever master 4Sight. If one is 
> going to spend a lot of effort learning how to best use the windowing
> system, X is the thing to learn.
> 
> Bob Bruccoleri   (bruc at dino.squibb.com)
> Research Leader, Macromolecular Modeling
> Squibb Institute for Medical Research


I totally agree - I am just running a VMS VAX using TCP/IP to the IRIS 
and X is running fine (Product of DEC called UCX Ver. 1.2 giving me the TCP/IP, 
and VMS 5.3 the DECWindows). 
Why should I bother about NeWS ? 

- Reinhard 



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