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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: NeWS on a mac?
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Date: 3 Mar 88 16:24:24 GMT
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In article <4000@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> barnett@steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>I mean, can you develop NeWS software on a stand-alone Mac?
>
>I don't understand how this can be done with an operating system
>without true multitasking.

One can develop a certain class of NeWS software on a standalone Mac:
that class of applications that runs in the NeWS server as its own
lightweight PostScript process with any necessary scheduling handled
by the NeWS server.  This is how NeWS "desk accessory" applications
like calcul, puzzle, itemdemo, rotate, spirograph, world, and friends
work.

Note that window systems like X can support none of this class of
applications.  All X applications really, truly do require their own
address spaces on some machine somewhere; whether on the same machine
where the server runs, or on some other host across an inter-process
communication channel of some sort.
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 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
 The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277
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