[SunRescue] Low-Bandwidth X

David Harris rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Mar 13 00:14:13 CST 2001


Hi-
Speaking of NeWS, does anyone have tapes for NeWS for a Sun 3/60?
David

dave at cca.org wrote:

> david at rouseworld.org writes:
>
> >The guys who wrote the "Unix Hater's Handbook" certainly thought so. The
> >book makes a compelling claim that X was brain dead and mentioned that the
> >Sun NeWS (Network Extensible Windows System?) was a lot better, but doomed.
> >The book, by the way, is pretty funny -- and makes some good points about
> >the Unix as it exisited in the late 80s to early 90s.
>
> I tend to rant and rave about how the web should have been based on
> display-postscript, but usually no one listens... :-)
>
> --- david fischer --- dave at cca.org --- www.cca.org -----------------------
> ----------------------- I took one sample and interpolated from there. ---
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