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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>NeWS</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="newline.html" title="newline"/><link rel="next" href="newsfroup.html" title="newsfroup"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">NeWS</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="newline.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="newsfroup.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="NeWS"/><dt xmlns="" id="NeWS"><b>NeWS</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/nee´wis/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/n[y]oo´is/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/n[y]ooz/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [acronym; the “<span class="quote">Network Window System</span>”] The road not
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taken in window systems, an elegant <a href="../P/PostScript.html"><i class="glossterm">PostScript</i></a>-based
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environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with
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<a href="../X/X.html"><i class="glossterm">X</i></a> if it hadn't been
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<a href="../P/proprietary.html"><i class="glossterm">proprietary</i></a> to Sun Microsystems. There is a lesson
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here that too many software vendors haven't yet heeded. Many hackers
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insist on the two-syllable pronunciations above as a way of distinguishing
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NeWS from Usenet news (the <a href="netnews.html"><i class="glossterm">netnews</i></a> software).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="newline.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="newsfroup.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">newline </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> newsfroup</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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