[SunRescue] Low-Bandwidth X

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Mar 12 14:43:48 CST 2001


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.

looks like SGI used NeWS as well, prior to IRIX 4.0:

http://www.engr.utk.edu/ecc/unixguide/node178.html

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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