10 Oct
2011
10 Oct
'11
8:30 p.m.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, Toby Thain wrote:
I'm not talking about gzip. I'm talking about
compression *in general* which
means designing your vocabulary and operations to suit the domain in
question. X11 cannot do this, it's at least one level removed from this
flexibility - but systems like NeWS *can* too (at least to my recollection),
and they made X11 look crummy at the time.
That reminds me of something... Would it be practical to bring back
something like NeWS and Display Postscript? Could it even be done?
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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