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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: caPITalS
Keywords: NeWS news News NeXT
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Date: 1 Aug 88 18:11:58 GMT
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In article <8807291539.AA05921@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov> toms@NCIFCRF.GOV writes:
>David Geary asks:
>>
>>Thirdly, why did they name it NeWS instead of news?  Typing CAPITAL
>>N e CAPITAL W CAPITAL S is a pain.
>
>I tHiNk iTs a FaD.  Look aT LaTeX and TeX and PostScript.  jUSt A
>moDERN tHinG lIKe hULa hOOPS, eVERYbody hAS tO dO iT.  iT wIlL GO
>AWAY eVENTually.

As has been discussed here before, it's also hard to pronounce in such
a way as to distiguish the window system from the message system from
the Japanese workstation.

At the NeWS SIG at SUG in San Jose last December, it was agreed (by
everyone present except those from Sun) that the correct way to
pronounce the window system was "knee-wiss".

The local NeWS hacquers didn't like that idea much, so they've started
pronouncing the name of Steve Jobs' new company (also using odd
CapiTaliZation) as "knee-zit".
-=-
 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
 The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277
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