May 15, 2003

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).

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:36 AM

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