Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript")

From	Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript")
Date	2024-05-25 22:31 +0000
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On Sat, 25 May 2024 16:07:45 GMT, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:

> Back in the '80s, Sun had a Postscript based windowing system called
> NeWS. NOT Display Postscript ...

Display PostScript did come out shortly afterwards, with entirely 
different extensions for interactive use.

Also X11 came out and was almost unanimously adopted as the standard GUI 
engine by the Unix community. Including Sun. It ran a hybrid X11-NeWS 
server for a while, before giving up on NeWS altogether. (NeWS fans were 
not happy.)

> ... but a program could send Postscript code
> to the display server that would not only render something but allow
> interacting. The entire GUI could run on the server and just send the
> results back to the program.
> 
> Performance wasn't great, but what was a problem then probably wouldn't
> be now unless you wanted to do high-end gaming on it.

It wasn’t just a performance issue, it would also have been the trickiness 
of synchronizing concurrent processes in the CPU versus the GUI server 
while avoiding problems like deadlocks etc.

Mulithreading was being used for just about everything in the 1990s, until 
it was realized that multithreaded GUIs were more trouble than they were 
worth.

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Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2024-03-06 20:59 -0800
  Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-07 05:29 +0000
    Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2024-03-07 15:05 -0800
      Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-07 23:38 +0000
        Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2024-03-08 12:00 -0800
          Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-08 20:53 +0000
    Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") David Newall <ghostscript@davidnewall.com> - 2024-03-26 16:20 +1100
      Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2024-03-25 23:10 -0700
      Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-26 06:20 +0000
        Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") rlhamil@smart.net (Richard L. Hamilton) - 2024-05-25 16:07 +0000
          Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-05-25 22:31 +0000
  Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-21 07:31 +0000
  Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org> - 2024-03-24 20:45 +0000
    Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") David Newall <ghostscript@davidnewall.com> - 2024-03-26 16:19 +1100

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