30 Apr
2002
30 Apr
'02
7:10 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner [mailto:spc@conman.org]
I used a Personal Iris 4D 35 at school. It came
with IRIX
3.3.2 which
used NeWS (Network Window System) for the GUI which was quite
I didn't know IRIX ever used it. That's interesting.
fast (despite
being based on PostScript) and easily extensible, but that
Despite being based on Postscript? :) Postscript must be easily
more efficient than the X11 protocol ;)
NeWS was (is) also supported under SunOS 4. For a while,
the server was actually merged with the X11 server in a
program called XNeWS. You could run the apps side-by-side.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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