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Sort of. OpenWindows was supposed to combine x11, SunView and NeWS protocols into one environment but in practice it killed NeWS because there were few applica
by smackeyacky 4y ago
Sort 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