Re: [TUHS] tangential unix question: whatever happened to NeWS?

UCL, and how deeply confusing it was having "server" and "client" inverted for what we all thought we were doing, using the local workstation as a client to connect to a more distant (across the machineroom) server like a Pyramid or a bigger Vax. One of those "ok I see why you did that, but Maaaaan this is inverted to what I expected" moments. We'd been coding in SunView quite happily. SunView might have been proprietary, but we knew what we were doing. Kinda. NeWS, had this wonderful quality of being code, expressed inside other code. So, if the two code(s) had been syntactically the same, I suspect the confusion would have been even worserer. But, as it was you were reading C, and suddenly, wrapped in what I will morally call printf() you have "machine(stack) reverse polish notation here because reasons pop pop pop") sentences. It was .. confusing. It is not unlike being totally glued to N/Roff, introduced to T/Roff, then introduced to family (a) of macros, then learn to cope with family (b), and then have EQN and TBL thrown at you.. meantime.. somebody else passes you {relax} a {relax} TeX book {relax} I couldn't {relax} -G