Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!don@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU From: don@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Don Hopkins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: NeWS mailing list Message-ID: <10661@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 05:17:56 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.10661 Posted: Fri Dec 4 05:17:56 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Dec-87 02:22:48 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 26 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