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NeWS: A Networked and Extensible Window System, lecture by James Gosling
Computer History Museum
A 1990 lecture by James Gosling on NeWS, Sun's networked window system in which clients send PostScript programs to the server for execution. It covers the high-level imaging model and compares NeWS with similar systems.
Shared in threads on window systems and X11 history as a primary-source talk on why NeWS was technically ahead of X.
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