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- From: hunter@werple.apana.org.au (James Gardiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Stalking the Ultimate Workstation?
- Date: 8 Nov 1992 13:03:49 +1100
- Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
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- nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
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- >> 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.
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- >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.
- I am not confused.
- Was not the version 3 IRIX winodow system Display Postscript.
- I am an SGI developer and we got very nice manuals on
- Display postscript.
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- However. Display postscript is not with the system.
- Exactly what is going on I have not bothered to find out.
- We don't use Display Postscript in our development.
-
- Point being here. Display postscript was available in the OLD
- window servers from Irix 3. Why does it not come on the
- X window servers???
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- James
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