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The NeWS Book : an Introduction to the Network/Extensible Window System /

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The NeWS Book leads the technical reader through the discovery of a revolutionary window system: the Network extensible Window System, developed by Sun Microsystems. Independent of computer hardware and systems software, NeWS has been ported to a number of platforms and licensed to many computer ven...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gosling, James, 1955-
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rosenthal, David S. H., Arden, Michelle J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1989.
Series:Sun technical reference library.
Subjects:
Computer science.
Software engineering.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • NeWS Overview
  • Window System Architecture: History, Terms and Concepts
  • Introduction to the PostScript Language
  • NeWS Facilities for an Interactive World
  • Object-Oriented PostScript
  • NeWS Applications and the Network
  • A Tour Through a NeWS Application
  • Porting NeWS to Other Platforms
  • X11/NeWS Design Overview
  • Description of the Plates
  • Bibliography
  • Index.