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, NICE_REPLY_A,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 5658 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2021 18:51:43 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 24 Jan 2021 18:51:43 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id ACD3B9C7B1; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 04:51:39 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF9A79C73E; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 04:51:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id DA49E9C73E; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 04:51:25 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 571 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 04:51:25 AEST Received: from kvm5.telegraphics.com.au (kvm5.telegraphics.com.au [98.124.60.144]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F0919C73D for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 04:51:25 +1000 (AEST) Received: from [10.210.249.17] (unknown [10.210.249.17]) by kvm5.telegraphics.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E7A027E79; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 13:41:52 -0500 (EST) To: Clem Cole , ron minnich References: From: Toby Thain Message-ID: <41336697-be92-8796-04d7-9b9b89bee180@telegraphics.com.au> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 13:41:51 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: , Cc: TUHS main list Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On 2021-01-24 12:04 p.m., Clem Cole wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 11:15 AM ron minnich > wrote: > > At some point I thought NeWS source was released. Is it just another > Lost Source or it is out there somewhere? > > > As I have said in other replies: "simple economics always beats > sophisticated architecture." > > I personally never saw the code, although I did play with the result at > one point.  I believe they licensed Adobe Display PostScript which was As far as I know, they didn't. It was a different implementation. They did develop the F3 font rasterising engine as part of the project, iirc. --Toby > one of the issues.  IIRC was also a trigger for creating Ghostscript.   > We toyed with using it for Stellar.   IIRC, Andy Van Dam was a big fan. > > ...