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In article <2097@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes:
>
>Ha, Ha Ha Haaaaaa, Ha HA HA, Haaaaaaa!
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>Oh, btw, how is Sun making DisplayPostScript run on those X terminals?

  This is not a very difficult thing to do.  X11R5 has the ability to
  support extensions to X, including such things as Font Servers and
  Display Postscript managers.  The actual extension will run on an
  X-client machine since most X-servers will not have the extension
  directly available (although it is possible that X terminals will
  start to support some of these extensions directly).  
  
  There is a potential impact on performance although I am not sure
  pushing X primitives out to an X-server to support Postscript is that
  much different from what a client application has to do now to get
  complex graphics on an X-terminal and that sort of thing is done
  all the time.

>I said
>this would happen. NeWS will die, and as soon as Sun announced the coop with X
>terminal producers I knew it would die.
>
>It is also bad news for NeXT in the long run. This is an attack on one of
>their key advantages. However, Sun must make it work yet.
>
>Did someone say "Bud Tribble?"
 
  Getting Sun to make it work isn't brain surgery.  However, getting users
  to adopt it is harder.  NeXT already has 5 years or more invested in the
  integration of Postscript with a very usable object-oriented application
  development environment.  Sun and others are a long way from that.

Jon Rosen
jfr@redbrick.com
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