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From: csg@pyramid.UUCP
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Subject: Re: [Nn][Ee][Ww][Ss]
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Date: Wed, 27-May-87 13:39:01 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 27 13:39:01 1987
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Reply-To: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst)
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Erik E. Fair writes:
>It struck us during a discussion of what particular types of torture to
>apply to the Sun Microsystems marketroid who thoughtlessly chose that most
>uninspired name for their marvelous new window system.... Perhaps, in time,
>Sun Microsystems will admit their grievous error, and change the name. After
>all, Coca Cola admitted that they made a mistake, once.

I liked Gosling's original name "Sundew." Doesn't obviously mean anything, I
suppose, but then neither does NeWS. To me, "sundew" suggests a beautiful
summer morning meadow, where the sun seems to be dripping off the plants like
the dew.... In fact "sundew" is a type of carnivorous plant. It's also the
name of a close friend's workstation, the happy result of pouring through a
dictionary looking for pleasant-sounding words that started with "sun" and had
not already been claimed by someone else (at least not at the time). :-)

While talking about grievous errors, what about "Sun IPC" for the 80286 card?

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