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- From: garylang@netcom.com (Gary Lang)
- Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.235425.473@netcom.com>
- Keywords: Sun, Display PostScript
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- References: <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1993Jan23.224301.25461@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:54:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.224301.25461@athena.mit.edu> zmonster@athena.mit.edu (Eric M Hermanson) writes:
- >In article <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu> daugher@cs.tamu.edu 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.
- >>
- >
- >>Q. Is DPS a standard?
- >>
- >>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.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >What about NeXT?? Sun intentionally did not mention NeXT, even though they
- >were the leaders of the DPS bandwagon. Boy are they ever feeling the heat!
- >
- >
- >>--
- >>Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu
- >
- >Eric
- >
- >
-
- Well, they were talking about major UNIX vendors and not
- technical leaders. Since this is based on market share,
- they were probably right to leave NeXT off the list. If they
- were talking about technical leaders, then they wouldn't have
- anything to write about because neither Sun nor most of the
- companies on that list have done anything to make UNIX
- as useful as it is on the NeXT.
-
-
- As Glenn Reid likes to say, just my opinion, and your
- mileage may vary.
-
- -g
-