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NeWS (Network extensible Window System) was a discontinued windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid-1980s (files.mastodon.social)
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NeWS (Network extensible Window System) was a discontinued windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid-1980s. Initially called "SunDew," its key architects were James Gosling and David S. H. Rosenthal. NeWS notably used the PostScript language for drawing and programming the display. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS#unix #history

The NeWS Toolkit screen snapshot

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@nixCraft Wow, I only realized that NEXT followed on NEWS just as being the next letters in the alphabet (W->X and S->T). The same as the VAX VMS operating system was the baseline for Microsoft NT (MS->NT).NEXT, in turn, was the basis for Mac OS X. That's the folklore when people say the (early) Mac GUI "was as good as a PDF" – it was literally the same underlying language, postscript.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @nixCraft reminds me of openwin

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