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In article <SCOTT.93Jan24152924@nic.gac.edu> scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes:
>
>Ever heard of NeWS?  Which runs on Suns?  It's not _Adobe_ PostScript,
>but it is PostScript nonetheless.  Especially when looking over the
>client library calls, it looks more like DPS than not.  For instance, ...

I'm somone has a memory that spans beyond the past year :-)  NeWS was
quite powerful inasmuch as it was first running on the Sun 3/60 circa
1986 at a fairly respectable performance level.

>I use past tense above, because NeWS is apparently at an end.  Sun
>will still support it, but it is being supplanted by DPS.

SGI used a variant of NeWS as thier IRIX windowing system up until late
1991, pre IRIX 4.0.  I was actually saddened to see it's inevitable demise.
(The X community finally got shaped windows in R5, but of coarse NeWS had
it intrinsically from day one.)

>[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 :-).]
>
>Later,
>--
>scott hess <shess@ssesco.com>                        <To the BatCube, Robin>
>12901 Upton Avenue South, #326  Burnsville, MN 55337 (612) 895-1208 Anytime!

Better late than never Scott.  There are a couple of NeWS books under the
Sun titles that are still worth reading.

- kevin
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