(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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