NeWS

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:NeWS: /neewis/, /n[y]oois/ 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 hadnt been proprietary to Sun Microsystems. There is a lesson here that too many software vendors havent 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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