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NeWS: /neeŽwis/, /n[y]ooŽis/, /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 Usenet news (the netnews software).
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