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Time to cue the NeWS reminiscing. Around that time, X11, NeXT computer, Apollo Domain, and SUN (where the network was the computer) were all pondering how get
by imglorp 10y ago
Time to cue the NeWS reminiscing.
Around that time, X11, NeXT computer, Apollo Domain, and SUN (where the network was the computer) were all pondering how get programs to run on one machine and output on another. Printers and display screens were kind of the same thing if you though in terms of shipping a vector program around instead of a bitmap, so there were a number of advantages to that scheme. Of course, X went the bitmap route. But Sun Openwindows was built on PS, and it was glorious.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript
* http://art.net/~hopkins/Don/lang/NeWS.html http://art.net/~hopkins/Don/lang/NeWS.html
Not to be confused with Sony NEWS... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_NEWS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_NEWS
- arethuza 10y agoSomewhere on my personal ToDo list is to get hold of a suitable SPARC box and get HyperNeWS running again to see if it really was as awesome as I remember.
- markc 10y agoI remember the fateful announcement of MIT choosing X-Windows over NeWS. It seemed obvious that NeWS was the more elegant solution, but lost out over what was apparently a mix of political and technical reasons. What a huge fork in the road that was.
- agumonkey 10y agoHold on, Don Hopkins is on HN; he gave me a huge list of things to read since the days of NeWS. url incoming... done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520680 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520680 ps: he made other lengthy comments full of gems; check his comment thread.