6 Feb
2023
6 Feb
'23
2:39 p.m.
On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 06:01:49PM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote:
On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 12:20:52AM +0100, Paul
Ruizendaal via TUHS wrote:
further described in:
Dominic Sweetman - A Modular Window System for Unix
http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/p007.htm
Later there were MIPS machines, such as the R2000 based
Hitech 10 which ran UMIPS (4.3BSD) with a choice of X11 and NeWS.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030205212745/http://www.galactic.co.uk/iainf/m…
http://www.umips.net/riscos/index.html
Dominic Sweetman and Nigel Stephens of Whitechapel would
later go on to be involved in Algorithmics, which was acquired by
MIPS Technologies in 2002 and became MIPS UK.
https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs3231/doc/R3000.pdf
https://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Algorithmics
Herewith some interesting (somewhat) contemporary papers on early windowing systems:
1. There was a conference in the UK early in 1985 discussing the state of window systems
on Unix. Much interesting discussion and two talks by James Gosling, one about NeWS (then
still called SunDew), and one about what seems to be SunWindows. It would seem then that
these were developed almost in parallel.
http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/contents.htm
Another window system was Whitechapel Computer Works' Oriel.