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• 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....
• etnews: /net'n[y]ooz/ n. 1. The software that makes {USENET} run.
  2. The content of USENET. "I read netnews right after my mail most mornings....
• Sun n. Sun Microsystems. Hackers remember that the name was originally an acronym, Stanford University Network.
  Sun started out around 1980 with some hardware hackers (mainly) from Stanford talking to some software hackers (mainly) from UC Berkeley...
• BiCapitalization: n. The act said to have been performed on trademarks (such as {PostScript}, NeXT, {NeWS}, VisiCalc, FrameMaker, TK!
  olver, EasyWriter) that have been raised above the ruck of common coinage by nonstandard capitalization....
• EMACS /ee'maks/ n. [from Editing MACroS] The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system inside it.
  It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab...
• dup killer: /d[y]oop kill'r/ [FidoNet] n. Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• BiCapitalization n. The act said to have been performed on trademarks (such as PostScript, NeXT, NeWS, VisiCalc, FrameMaker, TK!
  olver, EasyWriter) that have been raised above the ruck of common coinage by nonstandard capitalization....
• blast: 1. vt.,n. Synonym for {BLT}, used esp. for large data sends over a network or comm line.
  Opposite of {snarf}. Usage: uncommon. The variant `blat' has been reported....
• etnews /net'n[y]ooz/ n. 1. The software that makes Usenet run.
  2. The content of Usenet. "I read netnews right after my mail most mornings....