Shaping a New Idea
SHAPING A NEW IDEA
Until the late 1980s, windows had been mostly rectangular. At that time, however, Sun Microsystems developed a system called NeWs (for "networked windows") for workstations in a local area network. NeWs supported windows of various shapes but was soon discontinued.
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Shaping a New Idea