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Web browser architecture and the history of window systems
Alan Kay 's Should web browsers have stuck to being document viewers? makes important points about the architecture of the infrastructure f...
makes important points about the architecture of the infrastructure for user interfaces, but also sparked comments and an email exchange that clarified the early history of window systems. But Owen Densmore (with my help) leveraged PostScript's fine-grained control over name resolution to build an object-oriented programming environment for NeWS that was, in effect, a Smalltalk-like operating system, with threads and garbage collection. Outside of Sun, at the Turing Institute in Glasgow, Arthur van Hoff developed a NeWS based reimagination of HyperCard in PostScript, first called GoodNeWS, then HyperNeWS, and finally HyperLook.
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