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My favorite non-X-windows GUI was NeWS. It had some good capabilities not found elsewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne
by axilmar 3y ago
My favorite non-X-windows GUI was NeWS.
It had some good capabilities not found elsewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
- anthk 3y agoDon Hopkins will answer to this much better than I.
- pjmlp 3y agoNeXTSTEP had many similarities with it, though.
- the_why_of_y 3y agoOnly superficially; the display server architecture was quite different and more powerful in NeWS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22456575 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22456575 There are a lot more interesting DonHopkins comments in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22455722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22455722
- pjmlp 3y agoSure, if you focus only in what Postscript was capable of, however many of the ideas were possible via the Objective-C Kits. That is the part of NeXT that many miss, and it also has in common with SunOS/NeWS, the UNIX compatibility was only the bottom layer, the cool parts were above it.