Gosling

[Edward Jung]

c...@eng.umd.edu (Christopher R. Bowman) wrote:

>I believe what is being refered to is the Network/extensible Window System
>NeWS) a late 80's attempt by sun at a graphical network windowing system
>using postscript as the graphics medium. In my opinion this is what MIT
>should have come up with and what X should have been. Sun offered this as
>an open standard, but did not give away source for the system. If I
>remember it offered to sell code instead. However the system died in the
>market because vendors were afraid of letting sun lead with yet another
>standard, and because they did not want to spend money coding their own
>implementations only to be were sun already was. Instead vendors adopted
>what is (he sais bracing himself for the flames sure to come) IMHO an
>inferior and much less elegant system but one that no one really
>controlled/lead and for which source was freely available: X.

In fact at one point in time Microsoft had a license for NeWS from
Sun.

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Edward Jung, edw...@interramp.com