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Article #4935

Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!

#4935
From: David Lemke
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:31
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In article <1jur0dINNgr2@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes:
|> 
|> In article <C1D9BE.AB7@cs.mcgill.ca> samurai@cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK) writes:
|> >In article <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu> daugher@cs.tamu.edu writes:
|> 
|> >>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. 
|> 
|> NeXT has probably sold at least as many Unix units (but not $$) as both SGI and
|> IBM.  Does NCD sell Unix machines or just X terminals?  Not including NeXT in
|> this list is a political decision, I'm sure.

NCD sells just X display stations.

all conspiracy theories aside, i assume the reason NeXT was left off
was because they don't ship DPS/X, which the rest of the list does
(or will).

|> 
|> Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
|> NeXT Registered Developer #745         NeXT software development and consulting
|> NeXTmail: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU                             Voice: (408)335-1154
|> USmail: 95018-9442                                           Fax: (408)335-2515

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Network Computing Devices, Inc.
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