[TUHS] OLIT, MoOLIT, and NeWS (was: X11 Conservancy Project)

[Ron Natalie]

Much as I was a fan of NeWS back in the day (and later used a NeWS-ish 
complete with the Owen Densmore object oriented extensions) postscript 
interpreter as the basis for our product,
I’m having some issues with that “history.”   First off, you couldn’t 
arbitrarily cat a PostScript file to the screen and expect it to work.   
There were enough differences between Adobe and the NeWS version to 
cause problems.

The idea of putting small programs (written in PostScript) to handle the 
interaction was an interesting one.   The problem is that writing stuff 
in PostScript (even with the NeWS extensions) is so godawful that I have 
my doubts about having implemented an entire X Server in one (having 
written several X Servers subsequent to that).

Of course, Gosling came up with a more palatable development language 
for the next attempt:   Java.


------ Original Message ------
>From "josh" <joshnatis0 at gmail.com>
To "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson at gmail.com>
Cc "tuhs at tuhs.org" <tuhs at tuhs.org>
Date 12/25/2022 4:38:32 PM
Subject [TUHS] Re: OLIT, MoOLIT, and NeWS (was: X11 Conservancy Project)

>>Ranging a bit farther afield, I wonder similarly about Sun's NeWS, 
>>which
>>I never saw in the flesh.
>
>Branden,
>
>You may find this fellow’s archaeological dig on NeWS and PostScript 
>interesting: https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/788053163857379328
>
>He also attempted to make a NeWS clone: 
>http://dev.rsnous.com/dewdrop/executive/ (source available).
>
>Josh
>
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