Abstract
Up to this point we have talked about the NeWS server and about writing PostScript programs that execute in the server. However, NeWS is a network-based window system. Network-based window servers allow the clients to make use of window system and display resources on the network, much as a distributed file system such as NFS allows programs to make use of file system and disk resources over the network. End-users or NeWS clients can connect to remote NeWS servers to display output inside a window on the screen or receive input from the keyboard mouse or other input device.
“The other Messenger’s called Hatta. I must have two you know — to come and go. One to come, and one to go.”
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
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Gosling, J., Rosenthal, D.S.H., Arden, M.J. (1989). NeWS Applications and the Network. In: The NeWS Book. Sun Technical Reference Library. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3606-1_7
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