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In article <1992Sep28.163058.6642@RedBrick.COM> jfr@RedBrick.COM () writes:
>In article <2097@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes:
>>
>>Ha, Ha Ha Haaaaaa, Ha HA HA, Haaaaaaa!
>>
>>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.
...(Stuff about Sun making it sell nixed)....
>
>Jon Rosen
>jfr@redbrick.com

So, does this mean that NeXTstep could eventually run on X stations?
That is, couldn't the display postscript just be piped through one of these
Display Postscript managers and sent to an X terminal?

It wouldn't be very efficient.  But it sure would make for a lot of 
available Next terminals.  What about running co-Xist through DPS 
back through X?  Maybe not...
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