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NeWS was technically superior to X in many ways. I'd argue with Chrome could effectively be NeWS with Javascript instead of Postscript, disguised as a browser so as not to wig everyone out...


I actually wrote a significant program in NeWS. I ran screaming back to X. PostScript is a good page description language. It's a horrifyingly bad user interface implementation language.


That is true but it round-tripped between the client and server far more economically than X does.


And that's exactly browsers are turning into.

Browser: Canvas/WebGL + fast JS = new generation of NeWS.




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