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Loading... The NeWS Book: An Introduction to the Network/Extensible Window System (Sun Technical Reference Library)by James Gosling
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This book is an introduction to NeWS: the Networked, Extensible, Window System from Sun Microsystems. It is oriented towards people who have a basic knowledge of programming and window systems who would like to understand more about window systems in general and NeWS in particular. A significant portion of the book is devoted to an overview and history of window systems. While there is enough detail here to allow readers to write simple NeWS applications, the NeWS Reference Manual [SUN87a] should be consulted for a more complete treatment. This book was written to refer to the NeWS 1. 1 product, available from Sun and also available from several non-Sun suppliers. Shortly after this book is published, Sun will be releasing the next version of NeW- the Xll/NeWS merged window system. Chapter 10 is dedicated to an overview of that product, but Xll/NeWS deserves a book of its own. All the code examples in this book have been tested on both NeWS and the Xll/NeWS merge. Should there be another edition of this book, we will discuss some of the new development being done in the user interface tool kit area on NeWS. Significantly, the NeWS Development Environment (NDE) is now being developed at Sun; NDE promises to eclipse existing user interface toolkit designs and window programming environments. No library descriptions found. |
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Wikipedia in English (1)
The notion of Display PostScript adopted by the NeXT Operating System (uncanny how the capitalization lines up, eh what?) was a direct descendant of the Object Oriented PostScript mentioned in Chapter 6 of the current book. Display PostScript powered the screen graphics of the NeXT machine. When the NeXT hardware went down the tubes, the NeXT STEP development platform lived on, along with Display PostScript.
Ultimately, Display PostScript transmogrified into Display PDF and Next STEP transmogrified into Mac OS X and lo and behold, maybe NeWS didn't lose after all.