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== Porting == Although adoption was never widespread, several companies and universities licensed NeWS and adapted it for various uses, creating both commercial and non-commercial ports.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ports of Sun's NeWS |url=https://groups.google.com/g/comp.windows.news/c/VpdsNfxERQQ/m/PJO1eqF9TdAJ |access-date=2022-07-01 |website=groups.google.com}}</ref> * [[Silicon Graphics|SGI]] used a version of it named [[4Sight]] to replace their proprietary [[MEX (windowing system)|MEX]] windowing system. * Grasshopper Group created a Macintosh port called MacNeWS. * [[Parallax Graphics]] extended it to be able to deal with live video. * Architech Corporation ported NeWS to [[OS/2]],<ref>James Gosling, David S. H. Rosenthal, Michelle J. Arden (1989). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=xHSoK66z34YC&pg=PA193 The NeWS Book]''. Springer Verlag. p. 193. {{ISBN|978-0-387-96915-2}}. Google Book Search. Retrieved 2009-03-29.</ref> calling it NeWS/2 * [[Columbia University]] ported it on [[HP 9000]] series 3000 * [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] ported it on a Cray XMP-24 * TGV ported X11/NeWS on a [[VAXstation 2000]] running [[OpenVMS|VMS]] * Wedge Computer Inc. ported it to MacOS * [[Whitechapel Computer Works|Whitechapel]] ported it to their MIPS workstations<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/bitsavers_Datamation70901_85998605 |title=magazine :: Datamation :: Datamation V33 N17 19870901 |date=1987-09-01}}</ref> * [[Acorn Computers|Acorn]] ported it to their computers * Ameristar ported it on the Amiga 2000 * [[Alliant Computer Systems|Alliant]] ported X11/NeWS on their Visualization<ref>{{Citation |title=Alliant - The Visualization Series |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LZaJadtv5E |language=en |access-date=2022-07-01}}</ref> minisupercomputers * [[University of Michigan]] ported it on Apollo workstations, in monochrome mode<ref>{{Cite web |title=NeWS on the Apollo |url=https://groups.google.com/g/comp.windows.news/c/Q4P6Y2b03qA/m/lm466N4uQEQJ |access-date=2022-07-01 |website=groups.google.com}}</ref> * [[Pixar]] ported it to their [[Pixar Image Computer|Image Computer]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2001-07-06 |title=From Pixar To Velocity Engine |url=http://www.byte.com/documents/s=202/BYT19991110S0005/index2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010706230211/http://www.byte.com/documents/s=202/BYT19991110S0005/index2.htm |archive-date=2001-07-06 |access-date=2022-07-02 }}</ref>
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