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"HyperCard and DPS" There was HyperNeWS - which was a HyperCard like environment written in Sun's NeWS PostScript based graphics environment. I worked with Hy
by arethuza 4y ago
"HyperCard and DPS"
There was HyperNeWS - which was a HyperCard like environment written in Sun's NeWS PostScript based graphics environment.
I worked with HyperNeWS in the early 1990s and it was brilliant - I don't think NeWS had much of a security model (could well be wrong about this).
Edit: Because of the alleged difficulties of writing PostScript the HyperNeWS team created a C to PostScript compiler in PostScript:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12668668 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12668668
- mhd 4y agoThanks, I knew there was something like that already, but it's hard to keep all the Don Hopkins posts memorized ;) (Speaking of whom: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/index.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/index.html )
- arethuza 4y agoHyperDraw was great: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/HyperDraw.gif http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/HyperDraw.gif One thing that was particularly neat was that you draw a shape (any shape) and paste it as the shape of a window.