[SunRescue] Low-Bandwidth X

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Hmm, I sent that email 6 or 7 hours ago.  Talk about email lag.

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Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> Actually, that was me who suggested that.  The person who aquired a Sun3
> to run NeWS (although I still can't the machine's ehternet to work. )  
> 
> As to Display Postscript, I don't have what I wrote in front of me, but I
> only meant to suggest that DPS might be more efficient.  I dona't have any
> sample stuff to test that ieda with.  My understanding is that Suns and
> SGIs still have DPS, but if it is installed on the sun I have access to,
> then the man pages are broken.  Also, the DPS headers can't seem to be
> found by the compiler.  There is a DPS overvuew in the man system, but
> nothing more specific. 
> 
> XFree (for linux) requires a seperate module be downloaded, compiled and
> installed.  Haven't had time to do that.  Also, haven't had time to
> investigate DPS on an SGI, but in addition to the SGI, I'm going to need
> it on either sun or linux to do any testing.
> 
> Old software (NeWS, DPS, Symbolics Lisp( is one of my passions.
> 
> Sorry for the typos.  I'm in a hurry and on a slow link.
> 
> --
> Joshua Boyd
> 
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, William Staniewicz wrote:
> 
> > Today on Slashdot there is a discussion of "Low-Bandwidth X".
> > One of the people posting suggested that Sun's original NeWS and
> > DPS solved this problem. He further claims that Display
> > Postscript is more bandwidth efficient than plain X.
> > 
> > A quick search at sun.com shows NeWS being offered in
> > Solaris 1 but replaced in Solaris 2 (If I am reading this correctly).
> > 
> > What do you think? Is this an example of an old idea
> > addressing a contemporary situation? I guess I am curious
> > since I am somewhat of a retro type person who appreciates
> > things like lynx, mwm, etc.
> > 
> > 		-Bill
> > 		Amsterdam, NL
> > 
> > 
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