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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