Using the NeWS window system in a Cray environment
Richard L. Phillips, David W. Forslund · University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) · 1987
NeWS is structured as a single UNIX process, a network server that contains a PostScript interpreter. Client programs, which exist somewhere out on the network, talk to NeWS through byte streams. This paper describes the implementation of such a client interface on a Cray running the UNICOS operating system. With only a modest effort, it is possible to fit a simple PostScript interface to existing mainframe applications, which allows the user to graphically interact with the program from a remote workstation. Some typical applications, which have been structured as NeWS clients, have been described.