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		the_why_of_y on May 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Graphical Unix has always had desktop environments Only superficially; the display server architecture was quite different and more powerful in NeWS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22456575 There are a lot more interesting DonHopkins comments in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22455722

pjmlp on May 19, 2023 [–]

Sure, if you focus only in what Postscript was capable of, however many of the ideas were possible via the Objective-C Kits.

That is the part of NeXT that many miss, and it also has in common with SunOS/NeWS, the UNIX compatibility was only the bottom layer, the cool parts were above it.

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