(NeWS) An elegant PostScript-based windowing environment, invented by James Gosling, the author of GOSMACS.NeWS would almost certainly have won the standards war with the X Window System if it hadn' t been proprietary to {Sun Microsystems}.There is a lesson here that too many software vendors haven' t yet heeded.Communication is based on PostScript and server functions can be extended.See also HyperNeWS, OpenWindows.(1994-12-12)