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Only superficially; the display server architecture was quite different and more powerful in NeWS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22456575 https://news.y
by the_why_of_y 3y ago
Only superficially; the display server architecture was quite different and more powerful in NeWS:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22456575 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22456575
There are a lot more interesting DonHopkins comments in this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22455722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22455722
- pjmlp 3y agoSure, if you focus only in what Postscript was capable of, however many of the ideas were possible via the Objective-C Kits. That is the part of NeXT that many miss, and it also has in common with SunOS/NeWS, the UNIX compatibility was only the bottom layer, the cool parts were above it.