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NeWS
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NeWS /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ /n./ [acronym;
the `Network Window System'] The road not taken in window systems,
an elegant PostScript-based environment that would almost
certainly have won the standards war with X if it hadn't been
proprietary to Sun Microsystems. There is a lesson here that
too many software vendors haven't yet heeded. Many hackers insist
on the two-syllable pronunciations above as a way of distinguishing
NeWS from news (the netnews software).
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