[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).
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