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- From: sami2@ruffles.Eng.Sun.COM (Sami Shaio)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 08:19:00 GMT
- Organization: Sun
- Lines: 34
- Message-ID: <lm9svkINNm55@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu> <C1D9BE.AB7@cs.mcgill.ca>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: ruffles
- Keywords: Sun, Display PostScript
-
- In article <C1D9BE.AB7@cs.mcgill.ca> samurai@cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK) writes:
- >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
-
-
- Sun implemented the NeWS window system which was rendering PostScript
- to the screen long before DPS. NeWS also had a more complete set of
- input primitives than DPS does. In fact, NeWS was also the first
- use of annoying mixed capitals names that I'm aware of. Guess
- we'll take the blame for that one.
-
- --sami
-
- :) no flames intended but just setting the record straight...
-
-