NeWS

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_armigeron.com>
Date: Fri Sep 8 18:02:33 2000

It was thus said that the Great Shawn T. Rutledge once stated:
>
> I'd like to play with the NeWS system, since I've never seen it and
> am intrigued...
>
> Has anybody got anything at all related to this? Old Suns, old copies
> of SunOS which included it, docs, example programs, ... ? I'd like to
> buy a working setup.

  It's based on PostScript and one of the neat features is you can add code
to the server, thus cutting down on the protocol overhead (since it is a
network graphics protocol). I don't have any information about it, but I
do know that versions of IRIX prior to 4.0 are based on NeWS (IRIX is the
Unix clone for SGIs) so if you can get a hold of an old (we're talking at
least 10 years now) copy of IRIX, and the hardware to run it, you can play
with NeWS.

  Interesting bit o' trivia: NeWS was written by James Gosling (sp?), the
same person who initially created Java.

  -spc (Used NeWS, was upset when IRIX went X Windows ... )
Received on Fri Sep 08 2000 - 18:02:33 BST