On 6/25/07, Henry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Only a few historical rants to add: Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: >> And there's the retro naming of SunOS 4.x to Solaris 1.x. > > ummm, that was way more than a "retro naming". > > SunOS was based on the BSD kernel and the BSD code, modified a long time > under Sun. > > Solaris was based on System V.4, with Sun ripping it apart and basically > re-writing it. Wasn't there a windowing system change about this time as well?
Sun called their window system NeWS (Network extendable Window System). IIRC it was a predecessor of Display Postscript. James Gosling worked on it & it pointed out security issues with network executables that got addressed when he developed Java. An X11 emulator ran on top of NeWS and I think it was called OpenWindows (I'm sure I'll be corrected here). Sun (& AT&T) had a Motif competitor called OpenLook. Real X11 (r5?) was included around Solaris 2.4 I believe and NeWS was dropped in 2.5 (my NeWS based printers no longer worked). OpenWindows is no longer shipped either. I was in a shop that had lots of X-terminals. Sun could've made lots of $$$ here if they had a product. We had Xterminals from NCD, Visual, HP and DEC. /me recalls McNealy's rant about "Sun will never run X Windows" just a
couple of years before his next rant about "Sun will never run Motif".
And Motif is largely irrelevant today. Sun is using gnome and phasing out CDE.
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