From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 23036 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2021 21:16:44 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 24 Jan 2021 21:16:44 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id AF3149C7DA; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:16:42 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E42EF9C73D; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:16:32 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 7E2269C73D; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:16:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from fourwinds.com (fourwinds.com [63.64.179.162]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 130BA9C5FD for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:16:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from darkstar.fourwinds.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fourwinds.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 10OLGT7U966815 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 13:16:29 -0800 Received: from darkstar.fourwinds.com (jon@localhost) by darkstar.fourwinds.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 10OLGTtE966812 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 13:16:29 -0800 Message-Id: <202101242116.10OLGTtE966812@darkstar.fourwinds.com> From: Jon Steinhart To: TUHS main list In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Rich Morin message dated "Sun, 24 Jan 2021 13:07:27 -0800." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <966810.1611522989.1@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 13:16:29 -0800 X-JON-SPAM: local delivery Subject: Re: [TUHS] tangential unix question: whatever happened to NeWS? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Rich Morin writes: > John Gilmore probably has some interesting stories to tell regarding NeWS; > his Grasshopper Group project ported it to A/UX on the Mac. Don Hopkins > and Hugh Daniel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Daniel) did the heavy > lifting, IIRC. One of my favorite Don Hopkins quotes was something he said when we were wandering the floor at XHibition '90. Something like "Wow! with the power of X and Motif I can use a modern processor to get all of the performance that I used to get on an Intel 8080."