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Article #4663Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
From: John G Shirlaw
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:06
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:06
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In article <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu>, daugher@cs.tamu.edu(Walter C. Daugherity) 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. |> |> Since 1989, Sun has supported MIT's X protocol in its |> OpenWindows product. SunSoft will continue its commitment to |> MIT's X Window system by shipping an OpenWindows product |> based on the MIT source code. The last release of Solaris |> featuring X11/NeWS and TNT will ship in mid 1993. Subsequent |> releases of Solaris will incorporate MIT's X11R5 coupled |> with Adobe Display PostScript Level 2 as well as other |> imaging and geometry libraries. |> ( stuff deleted) |> |> -- |> Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu |> Texas A & M University uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher |> College Station, TX 77843-3112 BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS |> ---Not an official document of Texas A&M--- Does this mean that we will be able to use a sun as a terminal for NeXTStep... as they both will use DPS as a windowing model or am I just being simple minded? john.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!udel!gatech!enterpoop.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!jgshir From: jgshir@athena.mit.edu (John G Shirlaw) Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!! Message-ID: <1993Jan24.190616.8512@athena.mit.edu> Keywords: Sun, Display PostScript Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: m1-142-17.mit.edu Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology References: <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:06:16 GMT Lines: 38