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Article #4632Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
From: Eric M Hermanson
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:43
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:43
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In article <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu> daugher@cs.tamu.edu writes:
>SunSoft is announcing their intention to use Display PostScript
>today at the X Conference in Boston. Once again NeXT leads the way!
>
>Quoting Sun:
>
>
>
>SUNSOFT'S WINDOWS DIRECTIONS
>
>SunSoft recently entered into an agreement with Adobe
>Systems to license the Display PostScript System (DPS)
>for Solaris. This message is intended to clarify
>SunSoft's OpenWindows directions in light of our
>partnership with Adobe and our commitment to MIT's X
>Window System.
>
>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.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What about NeXT?? Sun intentionally did not mention NeXT, even though they
were the leaders of the DPS bandwagon. Boy are they ever feeling the heat!
>--
>Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu
Eric
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!zmonster From: zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!! Message-ID: <1993Jan23.224301.25461@athena.mit.edu> Keywords: Sun, Display PostScript Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: m11-113-10.mit.edu Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology References: <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:43:01 GMT Lines: 35