[SunRescue] Low-Bandwidth X

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:18:26AM -0800, James Lockwood wrote:
> In my opinion, NeWS (the technology) has a number of superiorities to X.
> The NeWS _servers_ distributed by Sun weren't always up to scratch,
> though.
> A modern reimplementation would be very interesting to see.
> -James

There's also the Sony NeWS UNIX workstations, which I *think* used 
Sun's NeWS as a windowing system/protocol.  The first models were
Motorola 68K-based, and the latest (recent) ones are MIPS-based and
use normal X...

http://www-jkn.ee.uec.ac.jp/root/pointer/SonyNEWS.html

Bill

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