Network extensible Window System


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 withthe X Window System if it hadn't been proprietary to Sun Microsystems. There is a lesson here that too many softwarevendors haven't yet heeded. Communication is based onPostScript and server functions can be extended.

See also HyperNeWS, OpenWindows.