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