On Mon, June 25, 2007 4:19 pm, Tom Buskey said: > 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. >
Ah, yes, NeWS. Back in 1986 I worked at a startup that was porting NeWS to MacOS, as a drop-in replacement for Quickdraw. The idea was to turm the Macintosh into a cheap NeWS-terminal; as expensive as the MacPlus was at the time, it was still much cheaper than a low-end Sun workstation. Alas, like many startups, the company went belly-up before we could launch the product. I seem to recall Steve Jobs vehemently denying that the name "NeXT" meant "NeWS++", like the way "HAL" was rumored to mean "one step ahead of IBM". -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
