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- From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
- Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.040703.28204@sq.sq.com>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
- References: <1jpl1eINNbsq@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1993Jan26.102812.16031@canon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 04:07:03 GMT
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- Found on comp.sys.next.misc:
- > SUNSOFT'S WINDOWS DIRECTIONS
- > [...]
- > Unfortunately, applications using the NeWS Toolkit (TNT) or NeWS imaging will
- > not be supported. Applications using NeWS imaging must be ported to Display
- > PostScript. We recommend that applications using TNT be ported to OLIT.
-
- smith@canon.co.uk (Mark Smith) writes:
- > OH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA BANG THUD
- > i can't wait to see the porting guide
-
- hmm... I think I can wait. I think I can wait a very long time before I
- move to a SunOS and OpenWindows without NeWS.
- They tell me Sun's DPS is going to be faster than some of the others.
- I hope so, the RS/6000 comes with a version that's slower than NeWS runs on
- my 4/110. But I hadn't heard that the easist way to go from TNT was OLIT.
-
- Here is my porting guide. For most developers, this method is *much* cheaper:
-
- (1) licence the OpenWindows Server (xnews) code from Sun, together with TNT.
- About $5,000 with a small-ish ($40 or so) royalty.
- (2) port xnews to Solaris 2 (shouldn't be too hard!)
- (3) Carry on using TNT.
-
- Lee
-
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