On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 01:05:36PM -0700, Jack Woehr wrote: > Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: >> What I really like about it is that rendered documents (which used to >> be PostScript or PDF) are now the same as ordinary applications except >> that applications handle input and may modify their window contents. >> > NeWS sort of worked that way, except its virtual machine was, > of course, PostScript. NeWS got beat out by XWindows.
Not really, it used a PostScript dialect which included OOP, events, arithmetic etc. Regards, Matthias-Christian