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It is so old-fashioned and nostalgic. Now it is time to write something like Nodejs clone in Flash - almost perfect mix of a buzz, uselessness and absurdity. ^_^

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Old school! Back in the 90's I worked with someone who still used NEWS as his desktop window manager (it was written in postscript...)

It rendered using display postscript - it wasn't itself written in postscript

I used HyperNeWS for a few years and it was most certainly mostly written in PostScript - pretty much a work of genius by Arthur van Hoff before he joined Sun and worked on Java.

NeWS windows were objects in PostScript - I can remember logging into colleagues NeWS servers using psh and doing things like setting the CTM for a window to rotate it by a few degrees...

Wow that's amazing - I always assumed that only the text went to a simple PS renderer.

One of my colleages once wrote the universities crest in PS, by hand - and it's a complicated one with lots of lions and crowns.

Flash already has sockets. What would be the point?

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