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- From: kdbw@Comtech.com (Kevin D. Baranski-Walker)
- Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.190952.6409@Comtech.com>
- Organization: Comtech Labs Inc, Palo Alto
- References: <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu> <C1D9BE.AB7@cs.mcgill.ca> <SCOTT.93Jan24152924@nic.gac.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:09:52 GMT
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- In article <SCOTT.93Jan24152924@nic.gac.edu> scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes:
- >
- >Ever heard of NeWS? Which runs on Suns? It's not _Adobe_ PostScript,
- >but it is PostScript nonetheless. Especially when looking over the
- >client library calls, it looks more like DPS than not. For instance, ...
-
- I'm somone has a memory that spans beyond the past year :-) NeWS was
- quite powerful inasmuch as it was first running on the Sun 3/60 circa
- 1986 at a fairly respectable performance level.
-
- >I use past tense above, because NeWS is apparently at an end. Sun
- >will still support it, but it is being supplanted by DPS.
-
- SGI used a variant of NeWS as thier IRIX windowing system up until late
- 1991, pre IRIX 4.0. I was actually saddened to see it's inevitable demise.
- (The X community finally got shaped windows in R5, but of coarse NeWS had
- it intrinsically from day one.)
-
- >[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 :-).]
- >
- >Later,
- >--
- >scott hess <shess@ssesco.com> <To the BatCube, Robin>
- >12901 Upton Avenue South, #326 Burnsville, MN 55337 (612) 895-1208 Anytime!
-
- Better late than never Scott. There are a couple of NeWS books under the
- Sun titles that are still worth reading.
-
- - kevin
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