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games@max.u.washington.edu writes:

>Pistscript is sure cool.  It just hit me though that (not for production 
>purposes) postscript could be abused into doing like regular programs.

>Like if you were stupid, and worked real hard at the code, you might even
>get a postscript printer to boot DOS?  or is there a showstopper?
>Obviously, you have an input device (attach your keyboard to the
>serial port, via your favorite terminal emulater), and you can spit
>messages out the serial port, right?, and even if you cant, you still have
>a printer for feedback to the user...

>I know that this is a wierd thing to contemplate, and I for one never intend to
>even come close to trying such a thing, but I just want to know if it might
>be possible...

>Along the same lines, does anyone have any examp-les of postscript code that
>are aimed at doing things other than laying out a page?

>			John.

Sun's Network Extendable Window System (NeWS) is an object-oriented
multi-threaded client-server window management system that allows you,
the user, to write whole applications in Postscript and C, C++, whatever,
mix and match as you like.  There's a GUI developer (GUIDE) and a user
toolkit (TNT).  There are several demos included with SunOS, and if you
can ftp there's HyperLook and SimCity on uunet.  SimCity in Postscript
is neat!

Ray Allis
ray@atc.boeing.com