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- From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
- Message-ID: <1079@rtbrain.rightbrain.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 02:19:37 GMT
- References: <SCOTT.93Jan24152924@nic.gac.edu>
- Sender: glenn@rightbrain.com
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- Scott Hess writes
-
- > [Disclaimer: I found out most of what I know about NeWS _after_ having
- > worked on the NeXT for a couple years. So, perhaps I was seeing some
- > similarities that weren't really there. But I do think that NeWS was
- > written with the DPS documentation in mind :-).]
-
- NeWS *predated* Display PostScript by a substantial margin, so they were
- certainly not working from the DPS documentation when they implemented it.
-
- The fact that Sun had already implemented NeWS was a major sticking point
- in their (un)willingness to license DPS. The fact that Sun had lots of
- bugs in NeWS, coupled with the advent of PostScript Level II, which
- represented an enormous amount of work on their part to be compatible,
- might well have contributed to their eventual licensing of DPS.
-
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