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NeWS: A Networked and Extensible Window System, lecture by James Gosling

Computer History Museum · lecture · Watch on YouTube

GUI, HCI & interface historyHistory of computingOperating systems & kernels

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Shared in threads on window systems and X11 history as a primary-source talk on why NeWS was technically ahead of X.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Here's James Gosling (you know, guy that invented Java) talking about it for an hour or so from 1990”

    James Gosling talks about NeWS for an hour in 1990

    kristopolous, 2021-11 · Recommendation · in “The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) in 2021”

  2. “There is a nice talk by James Gosling about it”

    Gosling on why NeWS was technically superior to X

    panick21_, 2024-03 · Recommendation · in “The Berkeley Software Distribution”

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Topics: news, postscript, james gosling, sun microsystems, x11

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