Editing NeWS (section)

{{short description|Discontinued windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems}}
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| author                 = [[James Gosling]], [[David S. H. Rosenthal]]
| developer              = [[Sun Microsystems]]
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'''NeWS''' ('''Network extensible Window System''') is a discontinued [[windowing system]] developed by [[Sun Microsystems]] in the mid-1980s.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.art.net/studios/Hackers/Hopkins/Don/lang/NeWS.html | title = NeWS - Network extensible Window System | access-date = 2008-01-08 | author = Don Hopkins | author-link = Don Hopkins }}</ref> Originally known as "SunDew",<ref>{{cite book | last = Gosling | first = James | author-link = James Gosling | editor = F.R.A. Hopgood, D.A. Duce ... | title = Methodology of Window Management (Eurographics Seminars) Proceedings of an Alvey Workshop at Cosener's House, Abingdon, UK, April 1985  | url = http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/overview.htm | access-date = 2008-01-08 | year = 1986 | publisher = [[Springer-Verlag]] | location = UK | isbn = 3-540-16116-3 | chapter = Article 5 - SunDew | chapter-url = http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/books/wm/p005.htm }}</ref> its primary authors were [[James Gosling]] and [[David S. H. Rosenthal]]. The NeWS [[Interpreter (computing)|interpreter]] was based on [[PostScript]] (as was the later [[Display PostScript]], although the two projects were otherwise unrelated) extending it to allow interaction and multiple "contexts" to support windows. Like PostScript, NeWS could be used as a complete programming language, but unlike PostScript, NeWS could be used to make complete interactive programs with mouse support and a [[Graphical user interface|GUI]].