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- From: tjhendry@queen.mcs.drexel.edu (Jonathan Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.000943.9363@netnews.noc.drexel.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 00:09:43 GMT
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- garylang@netcom.com (Gary Lang) writes:
- : In article <1993Jan23.224301.25461@athena.mit.edu> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
- : >In article <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu> daugher@cs.tamu.edu writes:
- : >>SunSoft is announcing their intention to use Display PostScript
- : >>today at the X Conference in Boston. Once again NeXT leads the way!
- : >>
- : >>Quoting Sun:
- : >>
- : >>
- : >>
- : >>SUNSOFT'S WINDOWS DIRECTIONS
- : >>
- : >>SunSoft recently entered into an agreement with Adobe
- : >>Systems to license the Display PostScript System (DPS)
- : >>for Solaris. This message is intended to clarify
- : >>SunSoft's OpenWindows directions in light of our
- : >>partnership with Adobe and our commitment to MIT's X
- : >>Window System.
- : >>
- : >
- : >>Q. Is DPS a standard?
- : >>
- : >>A. Though DPS is not a sanctioned standard, it is fast
- : >>becoming a de facto UNIX standard. All major Unix platform
- : >>vendors (SGI, IBM, DEC, NCD, etc.), except Hewlett-Packard, support DPS.
- : > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- : >
- : >What about NeXT?? Sun intentionally did not mention NeXT, even though they
- : >were the leaders of the DPS bandwagon. Boy are they ever feeling the heat!
- : >
- : >
- : >>--
- : >>Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu
- : >
- : >Eric
- : >
- : >
- :
- : Well, they were talking about major UNIX vendors and not
- : technical leaders. Since this is based on market share,
- : they were probably right to leave NeXT off the list. If they
- : were talking about technical leaders, then they wouldn't have
- : anything to write about because neither Sun nor most of the
- : companies on that list have done anything to make UNIX
- : as useful as it is on the NeXT.
- :
- :
- : As Glenn Reid likes to say, just my opinion, and your
- : mileage may vary.
- :
- : -g
-
- If I'm not mistaken, didn't NeXT outsell IBM in 1991?
- (In units sold, not $)
-
- I seem to remember something around the end of 1991.
-
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