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Is OpenWindows on SunOS 4 as mentioned in the article the closest one can get to running NeWS, or is there an actual NeWS environment you can convince to run in
by mananaysiempre 4y ago
Is OpenWindows on SunOS 4 as mentioned in the article the closest one can get to running NeWS, or is there an actual NeWS environment you can convince to run in an emulator? (I searched for this some months ago and didn’t have much success, but then I never saw the physical thing and have little idea of what to look for.)
- smackeyacky 4y agoSort of. OpenWindows was supposed to combine x11, SunView and NeWS protocols into one environment but in practice it killed NeWS because there were few applications that targeted it after OpenWindows was releases. I think the document layout program FrameMaker was about the only thing that used NeWS but I could be wrong about that. The original NeWS environment seems like a holy grail item but it wasn't that impressive in period.
- NikkiA 4y agoThe most common use of NeWS was probably the various printers Sun sold in the early to mid 90s that used an sbus raster card and NeWS to generate an image for the laser to put on the drum.
- boutell 4y agoI just remember everything getting much, much slower when all that showed up. Then we got the faster sparcs and it wasn’t as bad. Then I wound up with a job coding in XView, ironically enough. I never did code for Motif. Anyway it’s all fast compared to Electron