Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!

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From: Darcy BROCKBANK
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:18

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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

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