Indigos and such (Was Re: IRIX) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

30 Apr 2002

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner [mailto:spc@conman.org] 
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    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.

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  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
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