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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Job Control (a la csh/ksh) from within C
Message-ID: <40095@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 11 Oct 89 19:54:34 GMT
References: <1719@zen.co.uk> <1989Oct3.153120.4750@utzoo.uucp> <320@sopwith.UUCP> <1989Oct6.164830.5856@utzoo.uucp> <20040@mimsy.UUCP>
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In article <20040@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
|One of the things that bothers me about many of these fancy windowing
|systems is that there is no way to dial in and use them.

See "At Home With X11/NeWS" in the June 1989 USENIX Proceedings.  One
of the things that bothers me about most windowing systems is that
they need a lot of communication between server/client, which is
painful over slow connections.  The NeWS technique is better since
many operations are local to the server and need no communication at
all.  I wouldn't have picked postscript for my language, though.

Of course you still need that bitmapped terminal at home for that, but
then again we all have one, right ;-).

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com