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<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>NeWS: A Thing of Beauty that failed to thrive</TITLE></HEAD>
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<BODY><H1>NeWS: A Thing of Beauty that failed to thrive</H1><H2>What is it?</H2><P>NeWS is Sun's Network Extensible Window System.
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It was based on Sun's implementation of PostScript (<EM>not</EM>
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Adobe's Display PostScript, which was used in Solaris 2.3 and later),
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with numerous extentions for use as an extensible window system.
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<H2>History, or Why Did it Fail?</H2><P>
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It was invented at around the same time as X10, but was not released
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in source code form and only ran on Sun platforms, so the result
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was inevitable -- the technically far-inferior X10 and later X11 took over.
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</P><H2>TnT, HyperLook, etc</H2><P>
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There were several toolkits. TnT, The NeWS Toolkit, was from Sun,
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and accompanied by a program called CPS, which translated pseudo-PostScript
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into C.
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</P>
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<P>HyperLook, from The Turing Institute, was an alternative runtime
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environment and toolkit.
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<H2>What's here on disk?</H2>
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<UL>
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<LI>There are several <A HREF="tnt/index.html">TnT demos including
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a terminal emulator, games, modifications, etc</A>.
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<LI><A HREF="CyberSpace">CyberSpace</A>, a graphics tool
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<LI><A HREF="HyperLook/">The HyperLook runtime </A>.
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<LI><A HREF="gterm/README">gterm</A>, a flexible terminal emulator
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<LI><A HREF="ice/index.html">ice</A>, a powerful object-oriented draw program
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<LI><A HREF="news-tape/TableOfContents">news-tape</A>, the NeWS Tape from UMD.
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<LI>An awesome <A HREF="pdb">pdb</A> C to PostScript translator
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<LI><A HREF="tnt/index.html">tnt</A>, the TnT stuff mentioned above.
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<LI><A HREF="TNT2/index.html">TNT2</A>, the older version of Sun's The NeWS Toolkit
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</UL>
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