Date: Sat, 28 Mar 87 00:54:49 EST
From: NeWS-makers-request@brillig.umd.edu
To: news-makers@brillig.umd.edu
Subject: SunDew paper, and USENIX Proceedings
A paper by James Gosling about SunDew (now known as NeWS), called
"SunDew: A Distributed and Extensible Window System", appears in the
book "Methodology of Window Management" (ed. F.R.A. Hopgood,
Springer-Verlag (1985)), which is the proceedings of an Alvey Workshop
held in April of 1985, in Abingdon, UK. It contains papers by Gosling,
Rosenthal, and Teitelman, and others, about several window systems,
including SunDew, SunWindows, Andrew, SmallTalk, Pilot, Cedar,
Saphire, and more.
Owen Densmore's paper, "Object Oriented Programming in NeWS" appears
in the Monterey Graphics Proceedings (Nov. 1986).
From: peter@usenix.UUCP (Peter Salus)
Subject: USENIX Proceedings
Keywords: USENIX, Proceedings, Graphics, Washington DC
Date: 18 Feb 87 18:02:15 GMT
Organization: USENIX Association, El Cerrito, CA
There have been several inquiries concerning USENIX
proceedings. The Washington, DC, Proceedings are
available at $20/copy, US and Canadian postage included.
For *overseas* delivery add $5/copy surface mail, $25/copy
airmail.
The Monterey Graphics Proceedings (Nov. 1986) are available
at $10/copy; plus $5/copy overseas surface mail, $15/copy
airmail.
All orders must be prepaid in US dollars (checks payable on a
US bank). Orders should be sent to
USENIX Association
PO Box 7
El Cerrito, CA 94530
All other USENIX proceedings (*except* San Diego, 1983,
and Toronto, 1983) are still available, though the numbers
still available vary widely. There is a full list in each
bimonthly issue of ;login:. If you need further information,
inquire of usenix!office or phone 415-528-UNIX.
There are also some (not many) back issues of ;login:
available at $3/copy.
Peter H. Salus
Executive Director
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 88 23:03:41 EDT
To: NeWS-makers@brillig.umd.edu
Subject: more references to learn PostScript
From: scout%zyzzyva@Sun.COM (David LaVallee)
The point should be made that PostScript is VERY worth learning
regardless of the learning resources you have available. This
message will enumerate a number of the resources I have called
on to teach PostScript language and NeWS. I have the bias of having
been a graphic designer before getting into this computer stuff.
PostScript is found in "many" (understatement intended) printers
at a variety of resolutions and numbers of colors. All of the window
systems of the (near, and past-present) future leverage PostScript in
some fashion.
In the early days of PostScript my development environment consisted
of the Adobe "Blue" book, and cat-ing files to the LaserWriter, counting
the number of times the yellow light blinked to determine how far my
program had got.
The situation is much better today:
The Bible:
Book: Adobe Systems Inc.: PostScript Reference
Addison-Wesley
the "Red" book
Beginner-Intermediate:
Book: D Holzgang, Understanding PostScript Programing
Sybex
Book: Adobe Systems Inc.: PostScript Tutorial and CookBook
Addison-Wesley
the "Blue" book
MacSW: -LaserTalk, by Emerald City Software
-the Cricket products
-Adobe Illustrator
-Aldus Freehand
(appologies if I've left out any, it's just that I
don't follow Mac software availability too closely)
Advanced
Book: Adobe Systems Inc.: PostScript Program Design
Addison-Wesley
the "Green" book
(I can't wait for the cyan, yellow, and magenta books)
Book: Bove, Davis, Rhodes: Adobe Illustrator, official handbook
Bantam Computer Books
especially chapter 6...
Paper: O Densmore: Object Oriented Programming in NeWS
Nov. 1986, USENIX Monterey Computer Graphics Workshop
SW: NeWS on Sun, SGI, Mac, Amiga, VAX, RT, ISI, OS2, etcetera.
Also of interest:
Book: Alex White: How to Spec Type
published by Watson-Guptill, a good introduction to
Graphic Design with a bent on typography.
Book: S Ambron, and K Hooper: Interactive Multimedia
Microsoft Press
Book: G Holzmann: Beyond Photography, the Digital Darkroom
Prentice Hall
(more on this one later)
--scout
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 88 23:59:07 EDT
To: NeWS-makers@brillig.umd.edu
Subject: Re: more references to learn PostScript
From: uhccux!lee@humu.nosc.mil (Greg Lee)
>From article <8809300004.AA02405@zyzzyva.sun.com>, by scout%zyzzyva@SUN.COM (David LaVallee):
Thanks for the references. But I'd like to disrecommend:
" Book: D Holzgang, Understanding PostScript Programing
" Sybex
Not enough examples, mostly repeats material in the Blue book,
condescending tone ("Now we're going to examine the concept of ...").
Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 19:49:32 -0400
To: NeWS-makers@brillig.umd.edu
Subject: NeWS bibliography
From: lorelei!lemay@sun.com (Laura Lemay)
This is a list of books which people from all over have recommended to me
News Programmer's Guide
Adobe PostScript Books: Red, blue, green
The NeWS Book (Gosling, Rosenthal, Arden)
PostScript:
Inside PostScript (Merritt, Braswell)
Understanding PS programming (?)
PostScript Programmer's Reference Guide
Real World PostScript (?)
The PostScript Journal
Object-Oriented Programming & SmallTalk:
Object-Oriented Programming on the Macintosh (Schmucker)
A Taste of SmallTalk (Kaehler & Patterson)
An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and SmallTalk
(Wiener & Pinson)
OOP in Common Lisp (Keen)
Object Oriented Software Construction (Meyer)
C++ Primer (Lippman)
IEEE tutorials on OOP (Peterson) 1987
Journal of Object-Oriented Programing
OOPSLA proceedings
Etc:
Unix Networking (?)
Methodology of Window Management (Hopgood)
Windows Usenix Tutorial (Rosenthal)
Sun User's Group SEX tape (??) -- news-tape section
-Laura Lemay lemay%lorelei@sun.com
Redhead. Drummer. Geek.
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 17:06:05 -0400
To: NeWS-makers@brillig.umd.edu
Subject: Open Vistas information
From: netjam!krempel@sun.com (Henry Krempel)
Open Vistas Association
80 E 11th St
Suite 22
NYC Ny 10003
(212) 979-5337
Henry B. J. Krempel <krempel@sun.com>
Sun Microsystems MS 16-08
2550 Garcia Avenue
Mountain View, California 94043