At some point I thought NeWS source was released. Is it just another
Lost Source or it is out there somewhere?
I think they open sourced the OpenLook toolkit at some point, though I don't recall seeing the source code for the NeWS server itself. If I'm misremembering and Sun didn't open the OLTK, then maybe there was an open source clone. I am sure there was an alternate window manager that had virtual desktops.
Starting with, I believe, NeWS 3.0 and later they provided X11 integration. X had clearly won in the larger world. For that matter, so had Motif, but you had to pay money for it.
Do I remember right that it was a Gosling effort?
Yes, he was the driving force behind NeWS. Display PostScript! A cool concept.
- Dan C.