Subject: Re: [rescue] "bloated pig X11"

There was the Sun SuperMerge (on the side - what software used the NeWS portion of that? Anyone here used the straight Sun NeWS? NeWS seems to be difficult to find information on besides the Don Hopkins site), there was also the 4Sight implementation for IRIX 4D1-3.x. In common with the later DOMAIN DM implementations it, too, came with an X server that could be run on top. NeWS is one of those things that is in my "interested to find more out about, but probably not interested in programming" because of the additional PostScript layer on top. Did they have any IDEs to help with that? I remember reading about a new "UNIXy" window system project that seemed to leverage many of the points discussed above, but the authors had completely ignored network transparency. That's the sort of thing that seems needless fluff until you start to use it, then the network features of X become very convenient. I can't remember the name right now, however. Seems that useless stylistic effects were amply provided for in it.