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Article #23900Re: An Analysis of X possibilities in the Mac OS
From: Paul Asente
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 18:28
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 18:28
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In article <619@mitech.com> gjc@mitech.com writes:
[Many interesting statistics, and one big mistake]
>Compare this with the size of the Display Postscript Extension.
>At 513 Kbytes it looks giant. Bigger than the entire rest of the X Server
>code. (And DPS is c-callable subroutines only, *not* a postscript interpreter).
The Display PostScript extension *is* a complete PostScript interpreter. You
are probably confusing it with the DPS client library, which does provide
c-callable subroutines as an interface to the DPS extension.
-paul asente
asente@adobe.com ...decwrl!adobe!asente
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!decwrl!adobe!asente From: asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: An Analysis of X possibilities in the Mac OS Message-ID: <16725@adobe.UUCP> Date: 20 Jun 91 18:28:55 GMT References: <619@mitech.com> Sender: news@adobe.COM Organization: Adobe Systems Inc. Lines: 19