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Re: Historic X.




On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:

> hold on a sec... I don't know much about NeWS, but fromthe little I
> gathered it was a competing technology predecessing the X11 initiative
> (and technicly better btw). you describe NeWS as an added feature for
> X...

NeWS was indeed a seperate system - and was written in postscript... sun
held it for a while, until they gave in and converted to X11 as well. the
same thing happened to them with openlook vs. motif.

guy

"For world domination - press 1,
 or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy


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