From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] tangential unix question: whatever happened to NeWS?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:28:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202101270728.10R7SmLO1141589@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a112927-2b0e-12cd-d4cc-a2cb79f58aac@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
Grant Taylor via TUHS writes:
>
> On 1/26/21 8:54 PM, Jon Steinhart wrote:
> > stuff from V and W
>
> Um ... I'm showing my (lack of) age and my ignorance here.
>
> I assume that W is the window system that preceded X.
>
> But "V"? I've never heard of that.
>
> Would someone please educate and enlighten this youngin?
V is an operating system written at Stanford for the original
Stanford University Network Board. It featured very fast
synchronous IPC. W is the window system that ran on V. It
was porting to UNIX and renamed X, but performed terribly
because of the lack of fast synchronous IPC. That got somewhat
changed in X11 which was done to try to outcompete NeWS.
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-27 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-24 16:14 ron minnich
2021-01-24 16:24 ` Michael Kjörling
2021-01-24 17:04 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-24 18:36 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 20:39 ` Ronald Natalie
2021-01-24 20:54 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 21:01 ` Ronald Natalie
2021-01-24 23:38 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-01-25 0:18 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-25 0:36 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-01-25 0:41 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 20:45 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-24 21:11 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 21:14 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-24 21:22 ` [TUHS] Apollo (was NeWS) Ronald Natalie
2021-01-24 21:25 ` [TUHS] tangential unix question: whatever happened to NeWS? Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 22:53 ` Dan Cross
2021-01-24 23:33 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-25 0:11 ` Al Kossow
2021-01-25 0:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-25 14:38 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-25 15:31 ` Al Kossow
2021-01-25 15:55 ` Richard Salz
2021-01-25 16:04 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-25 16:37 ` Dan Cross
2021-01-25 16:49 ` Richard Salz
2021-01-25 17:11 ` Bakul Shah
2021-01-25 17:25 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-29 20:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-29 20:31 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-25 23:46 ` John Gilmore
2021-01-29 19:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-25 22:25 ` Rob Gingell
2021-01-26 1:38 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-27 3:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-27 3:54 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-27 5:15 ` George Michaelson
2021-01-27 5:52 ` George Michaelson
2021-01-27 5:48 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-01-27 6:19 ` Henry Bent
2021-01-27 7:28 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2021-01-27 10:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-27 18:32 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-01-27 19:26 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-01-27 15:47 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-27 16:40 ` Stephen Clark
2021-01-26 2:45 ` John Cowan
2021-01-27 19:34 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-01-29 22:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-30 1:50 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-01-31 2:42 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-30 3:51 ` Richard Salz
2021-01-30 23:20 ` John Cowan
2021-01-25 15:48 ` Henry Bent
2021-01-25 14:33 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-24 23:50 ` Ed Carp
2021-01-24 21:29 ` Al Kossow
2021-01-24 21:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-02-14 2:04 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-14 2:49 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-14 4:53 ` Rich Morin
2021-01-24 18:41 ` Toby Thain
2021-01-24 18:24 ` Dan Cross
2021-01-24 18:42 ` arnold
2021-01-24 19:11 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 21:07 ` Rich Morin
2021-01-24 21:10 ` Ronald Natalie
2021-01-24 22:30 ` Rich Morin
2021-01-24 21:16 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-28 2:48 Norman Wilson
2021-01-28 9:24 Noel Chiappa
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