don@brillig.umd.EDU (Don Hopkins) (12/02/87)
There is a mailing list about Sun's NeWS window system, called "NeWS-makers@brillig.umd.edu". (Administrative requests such as "add me!" go to "NeWS-makers-request@brillig.umd.edu", of couse.) It is gatewayed to the USENET news group "comp.windows.news". To avoid any confusion, when speaking the name of the NeWS window system, pronounce it like it's capitalized: just say "Nee-wis!" (Which, according to a completely unsubstantiated rumor, means "Neat Window System".) -Don (NeWS-makers-request@brillig.umd.edu)
don@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (12/04/87)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 87 20:30:00 EST From: bzs@bu-cs.bu.edu (Barry Shein) >To avoid any >confusion, when speaking the name of the NeWS window system, pronounce >it like it's capitalized: just say "Nee-wis!" (Which, according to a >completely unsubstantiated rumor, means "Neat Window System".) > > -Don > (NeWS-makers-request@brillig.umd.edu) Does that mean, by extrapolation, that I should pronounce Steve Jobs' new company "NeXT" as "Knee-Zit"? Just wondering. -Barry Shein, Boston University You don't think a StUdLY cAPiTaLisT like Steve Jobs would want people to think he was going to come out with another XT clone, do you? c(-; (Chanting "m-x load studlycaps" in Unipress Emacs, or "m-x load-library studly" in Gnu Emacs may help to elucidate.) -Don