[TUHS] tangential unix question: whatever happened to NeWS?

Jon Steinhart jon at fourwinds.com
Mon Jan 25 07:16:29 AEST 2021


Rich Morin writes:
> John Gilmore probably has some interesting stories to tell regarding NeWS;
> his Grasshopper Group project ported it to A/UX on the Mac.  Don Hopkins
> and Hugh Daniel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Daniel) did the heavy
> lifting, IIRC.

One of my favorite Don Hopkins quotes was something he said when we were
wandering the floor at XHibition '90.  Something like "Wow!  with the
power of X and Motif I can use a modern processor to get all of the
performance that I used to get on an Intel 8080."


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