Network extensible Window System
(NeWS) An elegant PostScript-based windowing environment, invented by James
Gosling, the author of GOSMACS.
NeWS would almost certainly have won the standards war with the X Window System
if it hadn't been proprietary to Sun Microsystems. There is a lesson here that
too many software vendors haven't yet heeded. Communication is based on
PostScript and server functions can be extended.
See also HyperNeWS, OpenWindows.
(1994-12-12)
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