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- From: jgshir@athena.mit.edu (John G Shirlaw)
- Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.190616.8512@athena.mit.edu>
- Keywords: Sun, Display PostScript
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:06:16 GMT
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- In article <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu>, daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity) 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.
- |>
- |> Since 1989, Sun has supported MIT's X protocol in its
- |> OpenWindows product. SunSoft will continue its commitment to
- |> MIT's X Window system by shipping an OpenWindows product
- |> based on the MIT source code. The last release of Solaris
- |> featuring X11/NeWS and TNT will ship in mid 1993. Subsequent
- |> releases of Solaris will incorporate MIT's X11R5 coupled
- |> with Adobe Display PostScript Level 2 as well as other
- |> imaging and geometry libraries.
- |>
- ( stuff deleted)
- |>
- |> --
- |> Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu
- |> Texas A & M University uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher
- |> College Station, TX 77843-3112 BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS
- |> ---Not an official document of Texas A&M---
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- Does this mean that we will be able to use a sun as a terminal for NeXTStep... as
- they both will use DPS as a windowing model or am I just being simple minded?
-
- john.
-