Use of select in NeWS.

[Brent Chapman]

In article <20164 at bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs at bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
#
#>Perhaps they weren't _that_ concerned with portability, or else they
#>wanted to make sure than NeWS ran better on their hardware than on
#>anything else (so everyone buys their hardware to get the best
#>version..).

#Yeah Bill, great plot heh! It would probably take 10 or 15 minutes to
#track down the select() bug thereby crushing the competition by
#forcing a late release...And I suppose Athena puts all those NULL
#pointer bugs into X-windows as a plot to force people to buy Vaxes!
#
#C'mon, I can't believe you said this, do you really believe this is
#true?

Well, Sun _does_ have two different versions of NeWS, according to the
instructors from Sun at the NeWS tutorial at the Phoenix USENIX last
summer.  There's the fast, tuned, Sun-only version that is what Sun
distributes binaries from, then there is the slower, portable version
that they will sell source for to other vendors.


-Brent
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Brent Chapman
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