(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)