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).
[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).
Related:
- NeWS: /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ [acronym;
the `Network Window System'] n. The road not taken... - netnews: /net'n[y]ooz/ n. 1. The software that makes {USENET}
run.
2. The content of USENET. "I read netnews right after... - Sun n.
Sun Microsystems. Hackers remember that the name
was originally an acronym,
Stanford University Network. Sun started out around... - netnews /net'n[y]ooz/ n.
1. The software that makes
Usenet run.
2. The content of Usenet. "I read netnews right... - BiCapitalization n.
The act said to have been performed on
trademarks (such as PostScript,
NeXT, NeWS, VisiCalc, FrameMaker, TK!solver, EasyWriter)... - BiCapitalization: n. The act said to have been performed on
trademarks (such as {PostScript},
NeXT, {NeWS}, VisiCalc, FrameMaker, TK!solver, EasyWriter)... - EMACS /ee'maks/ n.
[from Editing MACroS] The ne plus
ultra of hacker editors,
a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system... - Stack overflow: too many pancakes.
Eat some (Y/n)... - second-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously,
`second-system syndrome') When one is designing the...
