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 SunMicrosystems. 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)