13 Sep
2017
13 Sep
'17
5:09 p.m.
A couple of NeWS-related links which I saved back in March:
A book / conference report surveying the state of Window Management in
1985, specifically the chapter on an early version of NeWS:
http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/p005.htm
The amazing NeFS, the Network Extensible File System, which was supposed
to be version 3 of NFS, based on in-kernel PostScript.
Thankfully it died :-)
http://www.donhopkins.com/home/nfs3_0.pdf
Last year, an appreciation of NeWS written from a modern perspective,
including some comparisons with the JS / HTML / CSS / SVG web:
https://medium.com/@slavapestov/yesterdays-news-c52f2be95205
Finally, a question: is there a good comparison of NeWS vs NeXT Display
Postscript anywhere?
Tony.
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Dogger: North or northwest 6 to gale 8, increasing severe gale 9 or storm 10
at first. Moderate or rough, occasionally very rough at first. Rain or
thundery showers. Good, occasionally poor.