Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
What I really like about it is that rendered documents (which used to
be PostScript or PDF) are now the same as ordinary applications except
that applications handle input and may modify their window contents.
NeWS sort of worked that way, except its virtual machine was,
of course, PostScript. NeWS got beat out by XWindows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

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