NeWS (for Network extensible Window System) was a windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid 1980s. Originally known as "SunDew", its primary architect was James Gosling, who later designed Java. The NeWS interpreter was based on PostScript (as was the later Display PostScript, although the two projects were otherwise unrelated). NeWS started by modifying the PostScript interpreter to run in a cooperative multitasking fashion, since unlike PostScript in a printer, NeWS would be d… (More on News)