9 Oct
2011
9 Oct
'11
3:01 p.m.
On 09/10/11 5:46 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 9 Oct 2011 at 16:42, Toby Thain wrote:
My reference;
http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/p005.htm
Transcript of conference proceedings, delivered April 1985. Springer-
Verlag. ISBN 3-540-16116-3.
Yes, they used PostScript (their own implementation) - they just didn't
license *Display PostScript* per se from Adobe until later. NEXTSTEP
used Display PostScript - which gave programs like Illustrator and
Mathematica a bit of a leg-up.
I got the NeWS early developer stuff at the time; I still have the
binder. It was quite an interesting product. Pity the idea died off and
Linux is still largely stuck with X11.
--Toby
Yes, Sun
Draw/NeWS--first presented in 1985.May I assume that NeXT
boxes were already out on the street by then?
Hmm, SunDew paper by James Gosling is dated 1986, here:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NetworkExtensibleWindowSystem However, you are right about Sun using Display
PostScript later on;
according to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWindows) NeWS
was replaced by Display PostScript in v3.3 (1993). I didn't know that.
In particular, quoting from the above:
Teitelman:
The innovation here is not that we are using PostScript. The
reason we chose PostScript is due to a lot of historical connections
and proximity to the people who are doing it.
Gosling:
There is really nothing new here. It's just putting it together
in a different way.
--Chuck