[SunRescue] Low-Bandwidth X

Joshua D. Boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Mar 13 10:05:47 CST 2001


There was also the Pixar Image Computer, which used NeWS.  Another machine
that I'd love to get my hands on.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> 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.
> > -James
> 
> There's also the Sony NeWS UNIX workstations, which I *think* used 
> Sun's NeWS as a windowing system/protocol.  The first models were
> Motorola 68K-based, and the latest (recent) ones are MIPS-based and
> use normal X...
> 
> http://www-jkn.ee.uec.ac.jp/root/pointer/SonyNEWS.html
> 
> Bill
> 
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> Bill Bradford
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> Austin, TX
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