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Don ported the Mac version of SimCity to SunOS Unix running the NeWS window system about 15 years ago, writing the user interface in PostScript.
Boing Boing 2008
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There is no ad at either Link, just a statement from GWBush telecast on Fox NeWS ... where's the ad?
New Obama Ad Keeps Hitting McCain's Link To Ohio Job-Killing Deal 2009
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A number of vendors are also supporting NeWS, a window system defined by Sun.
The Hiss Case: Another Exchange! Irons, Peter H. 1976
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From Emacs to pioneering NeWS to of course Java, his engineering contributions to Sun have been at the core of what Sun has done over the years.
Sun Bloggers tatkar 2010
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NeWS started by modifying the PostScript interpreter to run in a cooperative multitasking fashion, since, unlike PostScript in a printer, NeWS would be displaying a number of PostScript programs at the same time on one screen.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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The implementation of the NeWS window server never achieved the level of robustness of competing window systems.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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In comparison with NeWS, DPS lacked interesting features such as the ability to use a PostScript path to describe the shape of a window, which also meant DPS required use of the low-level
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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NeWS included several libraries of user interface elements (widgets), themselves written in NeWS.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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These widgets ran all of their behaviour in the NeWS interpreter, and only required communications to an outside program (or more NeWS code) when the widget demanded it.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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NeWS started by modifying the PostScript interpreter to run in a cooperative multitasking fashion, since, unlike PostScript in a printer, NeWS would be displaying a number of PostScript programs at the same time on one screen.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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