(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)