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What is NewI\O?

NewI\O is a system for running programs on the Internet.

Instead of trying to kludge a hypertext document browser to run
programs, it is an attempt
to create something from the ground up to run programs.

The NewI\O system consists of:

1. The NewI\O application browser Dreadnought
(http://www.newio.org/dreadnought.html)
2. The NewI\O daemon NIOd (http://www.newio.org/niod.html)
3. The NewI\O library NIO_lib (http://www.newio.org/nio_lib.html)

NewI\O currently supports keyboard and mouse events, colors, drawing
primitives, fonts, images, sounds, and music. Video support is
included, but not fully functional, yet.

How it Works

Type in a URL to the browser. An application is started on the server,
and I/O is sent back to the browser using a simple bi-directional
message scheme.

Resources such as sound or image files are downloaded just like a web
browser would handle them. Therefore, the first time it runs, it will
take some time for the download. The resources are cached, so
subsequent runs are much faster.

What is new?

Everything. This is the first annoucement to this list.

Status

Alpha, very alpha. Major sections, such as security, are still to be
implemented.

The NewI\O is system is free software. It is released under the GPL.
Libraries are released under the LGPL.

There are a few small applications written for the system, although
most of the work to date has been in the lower level plumbing, and not
in applications. Therefore the API is very preliminary at this point.
Fortunately, it is very easy to modify or add to the API.

Acknowledgments:

Sam Lantinga, Ryan C. Gordon and the rest of the SDL team
Bob Pendleton - Font and text routines
Ryan Mcguigan - SDL_prim library

We would be interested in any comments that you have.

The NewI\O Team
February 03, 2006

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