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 Usenet
news (the netnews software).
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