Preface

NEWS-OS Release 4.0 is an operating system based on 
a pure port of the virtual VAX-11 implementation of 
Sun Microsytems Inc., and version 11 Release 4 X Window System 
of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
Without modifying the essence of 4.3 BSD, Sony has introduced in 
NEWS-OS support for a varaiety of languages to suit 
the usage of 4.3 BSD from different cultures of the nations 
around the world, such as Japanese, Korean, Chinese (TCA), 
and a varaiety of European languages.
Due to the open nature of UNIX,
NEWS-OS has also added support for a variety of new andio and
video hardware deviceds in UNIX-canonical fashion.

The virtual VAX-11 implementation of 4.3 BSD is the ultimate 
reference for comparing the quality of any port of 4.3 BSD.
If we achieved our goal of a pure 4.3 BSD port,
there should be no difference between the documentation of the VAX-11 
virtual implementation of 4.3 BSD and the one opf NEWS-OS 
except for NEWS specific machine architecture and peripheral support.
Indeed, by including the original unmodified virtaual VAX-1 
documentation for 4.3 BSD for NEWS-OS,
the use can be assured that NEWS_OS is actually a pure port of
4.3 BSD by confronting the VAX-11 4.3 BSD reference model 
documentation with the actual behaviour of NEWS-OS.

The present 14 volume NEWS-OS Reference Manual (NWM-645) 
documentation set is intended to cover the needs of programmers 
whose main activities are:

* the explaitation of the NEWScomputing power via UNIX services

* NEWS-OS system management


The manuals are conveniently organised as follows:

Vol.1	Unix Progmrammers' Manual

Vol.2	Unix Progmrammers' Manual

Vol.3	Unix Progmrammers' Manual

Vol.4	Unix Progmrammers' Manual

Vol.5	Unix Progmrammers' Manual

Vol.6	SMM: System Manager's Manual
	- Covers system administration.

Vol.7	PS1: Programmer's Supplementary Document - 1
	- Covers languages, UNIX tools, libraries.

Vol.8	PS2: Programmer's Supplementary Document - 2
	- Covers more languages, UNIX tools, libraries.

Vol.9	User's Supplementary Document-1
	- Covers history and user's utilities.

Vol.10	User's Supplementary Document-2
	- Covers user's utilities in editing and text processing.

Vol.11	NET: Networking
	- Covers all aspects of networking.

Vol.12	X Window System Documentation - 1
	- Covers X Window System.

Vol.13	X Window System Documentation - 2
	- Covers the X Toolkit.

Vol.14	X Window System Documentation - 3
	- Covers Xlib.


NEWS-OS Release 4.0 supports both RISC and CISC workstations, 
and so does this manual. 
In this manual, within each section,
the common On-Line Manuals are listed first, and then CISC specific
and RISC specific manuals.
So if you do not find an appropriate On-Line manual in the 
common documentation part, please refer the CISC or RISC section
further.
