newline /n[y]oo'li:n/ n.
1. [techspeak, primarily Unix] The ASCII LF character
(0001010), used under Unix as a text
line terminator. Though the term `newline' appears in ASCII
standards, it never caught on in the general computing world
before Unix. 2. More generally, any magic character, character
sequence, or operation (like Pascal's writeln procedure) required
to terminate a text record or separate lines. See crlf, terpri.
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NeWS /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ n.
[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).