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- From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
- Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
- In-Reply-To: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu's message of Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:23:06 GMT
- To: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:48:12 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.002306.20388@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) 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:
- [article text mostly deleted]
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- >>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!
-
-
- No conspiracy, probably. NeXT is not a major UNIX platform
- vendor in the same league (i.e., machines shipped) as the others
- named. Data General, NeXT and so on are all covered by "etc."
-
- That is just not so. According to the most recent statistics which
- I've seen there are three major workstation vendors (Sun, HP and DEC,
- in that order) which are followed by a pack of minor vendors lead in
- unit sales by NeXT. Notice that this makes NeXT bigger than three of
- the four vendors listed.
-
- Carl Edman
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