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- From: paquin@kahua.esd.sgi.com (Tom Paquin)
- Subject: Re: Stalking the Ultimate Workstation?
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc.
- References: <1d8ek2INNfu@werple.apana.org.au> <1992Nov5.041715.27882@cs.yale.edu> <1dhsi5INN829@werple.apana.org.au>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 18:54:53 GMT
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- hunter@werple.apana.org.au (James Gardiner) writes:
-
- |> I am not confused.
-
- Well, a little:
-
- |> Was not the version 3 IRIX winodow system Display Postscript.
-
- No, it was NeWS, a window system based on a very postscript-like
- language. "Display PostScript" is an Adobe product which is
- different. The NeXT system is based on a modified version
- of Adobe's Display PostScript. NeWS was not. Some find the
- distinction irrelevant, but most do not.
-
- |> I am an SGI developer and we got very nice manuals on
- |> Display postscript.
-
- I think you mean the Addison-Wesly PostScript books. These
- describe PostScript, not NeWS. Additional documentation on
- NeWS was provided by SGI.
-
- |> However. Display postscript is not with the system.
- |> Exactly what is going on I have not bothered to find out.
- [...]
- |> 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???
-
- It does, and has since NeWS was replaced. Now it is actually
- Display PostScript (from Adobe).
-
-
- --
-
- -Tom
- *****
- Opinions are mine, etc.
-