Talk:NeWS

message: I've never heard anyone confuse DPS and NeWS, so I'm not sure why it would be "common belief". The two are discussed below in context, so I'm going to remove this sentence. Maury 23:19, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree the wording of the sentence was bad.  Perhaps it should be changed to something like "Despite their ties in PostScript" etc.  However, didn't you remove too much when information comparing the two systems were blown off the article?  Kowloonese 00:46, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion between DPS and NeWS 

message: This statement:
:"Writing NeWS apps required coding both client-side code and server-side code in two different programming languages."
Means that the client-side was written in two different languages, AND that the server-side was written in two different languages. Is this really what was intended? 
24.84.168.252 sroberts
: Certainly not.  I've clarified this sentence.--Jec 02:47, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Both sides in two languages - really? 

message: No mention of NeWSprint? Can't remember many of the details at this point, but it was essentially a host based print system. I did quite a bit with SCSI attached laser printers using technology acquired from SRS. The SGI IRIX equivalent was Impressario. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 23:21, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  NeWSprint  

message: Maurie made an edit to this sentence, adding "without the support of an external program", which I agree with (having written many such internal NeWS programs that didn't require the support of external programs):
"Like PostScript, NeWS could be used as a complete programming language, but unlike PostScript, NeWS could be used to make complete interactive programs with mouse support and a GUI, without the support of an external program."
But the Spitzak undid the revision with this comment:
Undid revision 436531449 by Maury Markowitz (talk) Actually pure PS could not no matter how much helped
Trying my best to interpret this ungrammatical comment, he seems to be trying to say that "pure PS" could not [be used to make complete interactive programs with mouse support and a GUI] no matter how much [it is] helped [by an external program]. 
That is simply wrong. And "pure PS" has nothing to do with it. We're discussing "NeWS PS" which is certainly not "pure PS", and includes all kinds of extensions for light weight threading, file handing, networking, etc, that can be used to implement all kinds of stand-alone programs that run in the NeWS server without the support of an external program. For example, I wrote a VT100 emulator that could open outgoing telnet connections, completely in NeWS PostScript. 
Or am I misinterpreting him? If not, then I suggest we put back the phrase " without the support of an external program". 
Xardox (talk) 18:59, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe the whole thing could be re-written, I'm not sure its clear in either form. Maury Markowitz (talk) 19:13, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

text: I see how I misinterpreted the sentence, it was saying "NeWS could do this without an external program". I interpreted it as saying "PostScript had the ability to use an external program to make a GUI", which is ludicrous because it is certainly not unique to PostScript (I can make the random() call into an interactive program by adding enough "external" code!). Anyway I think I just misread it in a very strange way and I think you should undo my edit.Spitzak (talk) 19:26, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Programs?