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1.                 From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   NeWS
    /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo´is/, /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).