NeWS - Network extensible Window System  NeWS is the Network
extensible Window System, written by James Gosling and David
Rosenthal, at Sun. It's a multithreaded PostScript interpreter
with extensions to draw on the screen, handle input events, with
an object oriented programming facility.  NeWS Speak  According
to a *completely* unsubstantiated rumor, the Sun Product Naming
Division performed a great deal of research to come up with a
name for Sun's Network extensible Window System, good enough to
replace its original name, "SunDew." (Supposedly, the problem
with the name "SunDew" was that the word was not in common
enough usage.) It was found that the phrase most often uttered
by test subjects shown SunDew was, "Wow! Neat Window System!"
This was thought to be a very catchy slogan; however it turned
out that the word "Wow" was a trademark of Dolby Labs. So in a
reactive flurry of trendy acronymization, the slogan was
condensed into the stylishly Californian name, "NeatWS", from
which it was eventually trans