On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Aaron Smith wrote:
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> Anyone know if NeWS became OpenWindows? and where some original
> screenshots can be found?
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Not really. To the best of my knowledge, NeWS put a lot more processing
on the client side than X does, and OpenWindows is basically X. NeWS was
designed to be fully functional at 9600 baud, for example - try running an
xclient at this bandwidth!
What I've heard from a few people involved in the process is that NeWS was
a technically superior product which was killed by politics. (I.e. the
Sun/AT&T merger scare ages ago. IBM, DEC, HP and a couple of other
heavyweights rushed to adopt X as the UNIX graphical standard when the
Sun/AT&T relationship was announced for fear that Sun and NeWS would take
over the UNIX world. At the time, X was barely out of the proof of
concept stage for MIT's Project Athena.) You can probably dig up a book on
NeWS in the library - I know Sun published at least one which was still
for sale a couple of years ago (oddly enough).
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