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- From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Stalking the Ultimate Workstation?
- Message-ID: <s052uq0@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 18:04:45 GMT
- References: <1d8ek2INNfu@werple.apana.org.au> <1992Nov5.041715.27882@cs.yale.edu>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In article <1992Nov5.041715.27882@cs.yale.edu>, nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu writes:
- > In article <1d8ek2INNfu@werple.apana.org.au> hunter@werple.apana.org.au
- > (James Gardiner) writes:
- > > This is very confusing. Exactly what are they rating the DTP on?
- > > A good DTP these days is nothing but a real fast Xserver and processor
- > > to push it around.
- >
- > Not to start a religious war between SGI and NeXT folks (we
- > use and like both), but most serious DTP people I know say
- > that what you need is postscript, or better still display
- > postscript, not X, which is why a NeXT, with it's DPS based
- > window system NeXTstep, is highly praised by DTP folks.
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- IRIS systems do support Display Postscript in the
- form of an extension to the native X widnowing system.
- At least one major DTP application on the IRIS
- (Adobe Illustrator, big surprise) makes extensive use
- of it.
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- > It seems to me an Indigo has other strengths.
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- Admittedly, the Indigo has not made serious inroads into
- the DTP market, but it certainly is not for lack of a
- powerful imaging model. Heck, the Mac is still the
- number one DTP platform, and their display model is still
- QuickDraw....
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- Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics, Inc. portuesi@sgi.com
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