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Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!

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From: John G Shirlaw
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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From: jgshir@athena.mit.edu (John G Shirlaw)
Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
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