What's really cool is you could build window systems based on shipping around PS fragments instead of bitmaps. SUN's NeWS had a ton of technical advantages for

What's really cool is you could build window systems based on shipping around PS fragments instead of bitmaps. SUN's NeWS had a ton of technical advantages for networked workstations such as display and scale independence and smaller wire size. It was also interesting because PS could do a bunch of calculation on the display device, like draw the graph of a math function, and that spec could be encapsulated in other code. It could also do I/O which was interesting in a UI capacity, ie OpenWindows. Right around this same time, X11 was coming up on other platforms like HP and Apollo, and it seems to have "won", and NeWS disappeared. I wonder if the time is right for a resurgence in this idea, now that we're rethinking compositors, X servers, Wayland etc etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS