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Subject: Re: [TUHS] tangential unix question: whatever happened to NeWS?
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NeWS had a number of problems.   Oddly, James Gosling who designed NeWS=20
(along with Owen Dunsmore who made the PostScript class mechanism) went=20
on to do Java which got around the simple fact that as far as a=20
programming language for human programmers, PostScript is absolutely=20
abysmal.    It also suffered from other goofy mistakes like the=20
"terminal" window when resized just made the 24x80 bigger by scaling up=20
the fonts (most people expect to keep the font size but get more rows=20
and columns).

Don Hopkins (is he here?) had done his pi menus (round menus) which were=20
a pretty neat concept that never caught on elswehere on NeWS.