8 Sep
2000
8 Sep
'00
8 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: <healyzh(a)aracnet.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: NeWS
Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
seeing
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 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.