From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:09:53 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] X and NeWS history (long) In-Reply-To: <201709122211.v8CMB3pf029787@darkstar.fourwinds.com> References: <201709111649.v8BGnGTx005812@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <20170911230910.GH7819@mcvoy.com> <201709120738.v8C7ckOF007026@freefriends.org> <201709121535.v8CFZOuB015695@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <201709122211.v8CMB3pf029787@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Message-ID: A couple of NeWS-related links which I saved back in March: A book / conference report surveying the state of Window Management in 1985, specifically the chapter on an early version of NeWS: http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/p005.htm The amazing NeFS, the Network Extensible File System, which was supposed to be version 3 of NFS, based on in-kernel PostScript. Thankfully it died :-) http://www.donhopkins.com/home/nfs3_0.pdf Last year, an appreciation of NeWS written from a modern perspective, including some comparisons with the JS / HTML / CSS / SVG web: https://medium.com/@slavapestov/yesterdays-news-c52f2be95205 Finally, a question: is there a good comparison of NeWS vs NeXT Display Postscript anywhere? Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode Dogger: North or northwest 6 to gale 8, increasing severe gale 9 or storm 10 at first. Moderate or rough, occasionally very rough at first. Rain or thundery showers. Good, occasionally poor.