And to cleanse the palette, DSRH's epic "Sun Deskset == Roy Lichtenstein Painting on your Bedroom Wall" flame (David SH Rosenthal was one of the original authors of NeWS, with James Gosling, and also wrote the X11 ICCCM):
I don't really know. I was just trying to come up with some obscure references. Solaris on desktop wasn't crazy enough.
I think a modern take on NeWS style system would use Webassembly style system with capability based access rather then PostScript and no security. Basically a modern browser with Canves/WebGL and without a lot of other stuff a browser does.
Would have been a interesting alternative to the Wayland approach.
Kind of sad that Scott McNealy didn't have the balls to open it up. Having some real competition to X in the 90s would have been a cool. Specially if Sun had pushed it at least somewhat.
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I know Don Hopkins hangs out here sometimes, but the big question is did NeWS source code ever get liberated from the depths of Mordoracle?
Naw, Sun never liberated it.
Sun did announced "NeWS is Free (only $1000)" which was kind of a kick in the balls and abuse of the word "free".
"Free (only $1000)" discussion on usenet:
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.windows.news/c/-G1l_372AP8/...
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.windows.news/c/YtZzYMZ587M/...
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.org.sug/c/IXcXK7hKgUQ/m/nf8...
A couple of my flames about the situation:
https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/Explanation.txt
https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/sevans.txt
And to cleanse the palette, DSRH's epic "Sun Deskset == Roy Lichtenstein Painting on your Bedroom Wall" flame (David SH Rosenthal was one of the original authors of NeWS, with James Gosling, and also wrote the X11 ICCCM):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38768724
I don't really know. I was just trying to come up with some obscure references. Solaris on desktop wasn't crazy enough.
I think a modern take on NeWS style system would use Webassembly style system with capability based access rather then PostScript and no security. Basically a modern browser with Canves/WebGL and without a lot of other stuff a browser does.
Would have been a interesting alternative to the Wayland approach.
Kind of sad that Scott McNealy didn't have the balls to open it up. Having some real competition to X in the 90s would have been a cool. Specially if Sun had pushed it at least somewhat.