Indigos and such (Was Re: IRIX)

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Tue Apr 30 14:10:31 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner [mailto:spc_at_conman.org]

> I used a Personal Iris 4D 35 at school. It came with IRIX
> 3.3.2 which
> used NeWS (Network Window System) for the GUI which was quite

I didn't know IRIX ever used it. That's interesting.

> fast (despite
> being based on PostScript) and easily extensible, but that

Despite being based on Postscript? :) Postscript must be easily
more efficient than the X11 protocol ;)

NeWS was (is) also supported under SunOS 4. For a while,
the server was actually merged with the X11 server in a
program called XNeWS. You could run the apps side-by-side.

Chris


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