NeWS

From: Mark Gregory <gregorym_at_cadvision.com>
Date: Fri Sep 8 18:00:11 2000

----- Original Message -----
From: <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: NeWS


> Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
> > I'd like to play with the NeWS system, since I've never seen it and
> > am intrigued...
> >
>
> Wasn't this an OS from Sony? However, saying that I seem to recall
seeing
> something to do with it and Printers in some old Sun stuff.
>
> So I guess my question would be what exactly is it?
>
> Zane
>

You mean everyone doesn't have a copy of The New Hacker's Dictionary on
their desks?
To quote the Jargon File:

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).

Cheers,
Mark.
Received on Fri Sep 08 2000 - 18:00:11 BST