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First Impressions of NeWS
William Roberts
Mel Slater
Kieron Drake
Antony Simmins
Allan Davison
Department of Computer Science
Queen Mary College
190 Mile End Road
LONDON E1 4NS
Peter Williams
QMC Interactive Systems Ltd
229 Mile End Road
LONDON E1 4NS
ABSTRACT
The SUN Microsystems Network Extensible Win-
dow System (NeWS) is a display system that uses
the PostScript page description language to pro-
vide fully device independent screen and input
manipulation as a network service. This system has
been available in the UK as a beta test product
since April 1987 and this paper reports the work
done with NeWS at Queen Mary College. A general
introduction to NeWS is given, together with some
more detailed information and reports of what each
author has been doing with the system. We will
try to predict the future of NeWS and its main
rival (the MIT X-Windows system) and to suggest
changes to the NeWS beta product that will be
necessary for it to realise its potential.
Keywords: NeWS, PostScript, workstation, window
systems, device independence, graphics, X-windows
August 1987 - 25 pages
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This paper can be obtained free of charge by writing to
Sue White
Research Coordinator
Department of Computer Science
Queen Mary College
190 Mile End Road
LONDON E1 4NS
ENGLAND
or sending e-mail to suew@qmc-cs.UUCP.
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William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (gw: cs.ucl.edu)
Queen Mary College UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP
LONDON, UK Tel: 01-980 4811 ext 3900mdn@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Nguyen) (09/29/87)
since many of us don't have mail link to your system, it is kind of hard to send e-mail request. Thanks, Matt Nguyen AT&T Bell Labs Naperville-Wheaton Road Naperville, Illinois 60566
liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) (10/02/87)
Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: In article <5693@ihlpa.ATT.COM> mdn@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Nguyen) writes: >since many of us don't have mail link to your system, >it is kind of hard to send e-mail request. > >Thanks, > >Matt Nguyen >AT&T Bell Labs >Naperville-Wheaton Road >Naperville, Illinois 60566 I'm sorry - the address to write to, giving a FULL POSTAL ADDRESS, is First Impressions of NeWS Sue White Department of Computer Science Queen Mary College 190 Mile End Road LONDON E1 4NS England We are still paying the postage to airmail the paper copy to you though contributions would be appreciated (we didn't expect over 200 requests!). It costs about $3 to send it from England to the US. I am not prepared to send the PostScript equivalent because that would cost me rather more - my Arpanet link estimates about $140 per megabyte for file transfers from the US to the UK. The document was prepared in a local version of ditroff with a modified Adobe TranScript postprocessor which allows a sensible method of including raw PostScript in Ditroff output -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (gw: cs.ucl.edu) Queen Mary College UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP LONDON, UK Tel: 01-980 4811 ext 3900