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I would argue that the best NeWS interface toolkit wasn't even built by Sun - HyperNeWS|HyperLook: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20182294 https://news.y
by arethuza 7y ago
I would argue that the best NeWS interface toolkit wasn't even built by Sun - HyperNeWS|HyperLook:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20182294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20182294
Edit: Writing PostScript by hand was actually rather good fun - it's actually quite a nice language.
- rbanffy 7y ago> Edit: Writing PostScript by hand was actually rather good fun - it's actually quite a nice language. Part of the fun was that the most powerful computer in the office, for quite some time, was in the laser printer.
- arethuza 7y agoWhen I did a computer vision course during the final years of my CS degree ('87/'88) we actually did the development on HLH Orion minis but could only view stuff by printing it out! Edit: We did get a demo of 2D Fourier analysis stuff on a Sun - which, of course, we thought was amazingly cool.
- jacobush 7y agoAh, there was some C64 software which used the CPU (same as in the C64) in the diskette drive for something. :)
- rbanffy 7y agoHow many 1541a could you daisy chain to a C64? If sending problem data and getting results is faster than doing the calculations on the C64 itself, we can have some net gains. I don't think Bitcoin mining is viable, but rendering fractals may be... I remember one PostScript printer (AMD 29K-based) that rendered a Mandelbrot set much faster than my modest Mac LC 2 (or 3?)...
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- DonHopkins 7y agoHere's a paper I wrote in 1989 about The Shape of PSIBER Space: PostScript Interactive Bug Eradication Routines: a visual programming and debugging interface for NeWS PostScript https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-shape-of-psiber-space-october-1989-19e2dfa4d91e https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-shape-of-psiber-space-oct...