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- From: samurai@cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
- Keywords: Sun, Display PostScript
- Message-ID: <C1D9BE.AB7@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 16:18:49 GMT
- References: <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator)
- Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
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- In article <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu> daugher@cs.tamu.edu writes:
-
- >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.
-
- I guess NeXT does not use DPS.
-
- I guess they didn't pioneer it either. From what I gather
- it was NeXT's idea in the first place to use PostScript on
- the display. Everyone else thought that PostScript was too
- slow for an interactive display.
-
- Oh, forgot this was Sun talking... They're almost as bad as
- Iraqi ambassadors :-).
-
-
- - db
-