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- From: hopkins@cs.cmu.edu (Don Hopkins)
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- Subject: Re: SunSoft Windows Toolkits Positioning
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- Date: 11 Nov 92 16:26:56 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: mukerjee@sereno.Eng.Sun.COM's message of 10 Nov 1992 22:51:05 GMT
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- mukerjee@sereno.Eng.Sun.COM (Jim Mukerjee) writes:
-
- > ************************************************************************
- > SUNSOFT WINDOWS TOOLKITS POSITIONING
- > ************************************************************************
- >
- > There has been significant network traffic lately speculating on
- > the current positioning and future support of SunSoft Windows
- > Toolkits, specifically related to XView and OLIT. As with most
- > rumors, much of the network traffic relating to XView has been
- > in error. The brief statement below should put to rest the gossip,
- > innuendo and inaccurate conclusions, and allow developers to
- > get back to real work.
-
- There is one glaring ommission from your announcement, and that's TNT,
- The NeWS Toolkit, which last I heard from Steve MacKay and Scott
- McNealy, was one of Sun's supported Open Look toolkits. There was no
- mention of TNT in Sun's announcement about Display PostScript. Has
- there been an official announcement about Sun's support for TNT? I
- have developed and worked with several products based on TNT,
- including HyperLook and SimCity, so I would like to know. What are
- companies who have NeWS products, like Aldus, Frame, the Turing
- Institute, and DUX Software, supposed to do? I used to work on TNT at
- Sun, but I resigned my job because I did not believe Steve MacKay and
- Scott McNealy were telling the truth when they said they would support
- it, and they expected me to pass that lie onto the customers, like
- Frame and Turing. I am afraid that Sun is going to change their tune
- on XView and OLIT, the same way they flip-flopped on TNT. So would
- you please address the following questions:
-
- Q1. Is TNT still supported by SunSoft?
- Q2. Will there be more releases of TNT?
- Q3. I've heard that TNT may no longer be shipped after this year.
- Is this true?
- Q4. When will TNT be EOLed?
- Q5. Will TNT source ever be publicly available?
- Q6. Will there be any new features added to TNT?
- Q7. Should I rewrite my application in DPS?
- Q8. Is there a significant engineering effort behind TNT?
- Q9. What is Sun's current feeling about NeWS?
-
- -Don
-