Notes on  NEWS 

[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).

J3N Research Labs

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