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Article #4658Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
From: Glenn Reid
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:19
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:19
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Scott Hess writes > [Disclaimer: I found out most of what I know about NeWS _after_ having > worked on the NeXT for a couple years. So, perhaps I was seeing some > similarities that weren't really there. But I do think that NeWS was > written with the DPS documentation in mind :-).] NeWS *predated* Display PostScript by a substantial margin, so they were certainly not working from the DPS documentation when they implemented it. The fact that Sun had already implemented NeWS was a major sticking point in their (un)willingness to license DPS. The fact that Sun had lots of bugs in NeWS, coupled with the advent of PostScript Level II, which represented an enormous amount of work on their part to be compatible, might well have contributed to their eventual licensing of DPS. -- Glenn Reid NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com RightBrain Software 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977) Palo Alto, California Electronic Frontier Foundation, member #054
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!portal!rtbrain!rightbrain.com From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!! Message-ID: <1079@rtbrain.rightbrain.com> Date: 25 Jan 93 02:19:37 GMT References: <SCOTT.93Jan24152924@nic.gac.edu> Sender: glenn@rightbrain.com Reply-To: glenn@rightbrain.com Lines: 20