[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 he
`Network Window System'] n. 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....
econd-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously
`second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to
a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a
tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an
{elephantine} feature-laden monstrosity....