Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!eos!shelby!med!hanauma!rick From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: what's most important to you for R5? Message-ID: <1642@med.Stanford.EDU> Date: 28 Jun 90 19:08:38 GMT References: <1990Jun28.081549.22442@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <138022@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <23067@shamash.cdc.com> Sender: news@med.stanford.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Stanford University, Department of Geophysics Lines: 28 In article <23067@shamash.cdc.com- dwl@udev.cdc.com (Daren W Latham) writes: -In article <138022@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, vladimir@prosper (Vladimir G. -Ivanovic) writes: -> In article <1990Jun28.081549.22442@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, ramani@charity -(Ramani Pichumani) writes: -> -> > -> >The usefulness of a real PostScript Interpreter cannot be overstated. -> >I would rank this as one of the most important possible features for -> >X11R5. -> > -> -> It already here (and has been for a while): Sun's X11/NeWS server. A new -> release, OpenWindows Version 2, is imminent. See your Sun salesperson for -> details or send me mail. -> - - And these will be available on platforms other than Sun?? Perhaps our - environment is different from most, but "we" don't have a Sun on every - desk... The above mentioned capability would be nice to have in R5. Sun has been offering the source code to NeWS since its creation four years ago. Silicon Graphics and Grasshopper (IBM-PC ??) have ported it. X11/NeWS has many features superior to XWindows and could have been the industry standard IF (in my opinion) Sun had (1) not charged a lot of money for the source; (2) made updates faster (NeWS 2 is shipping about 3 years after NeWS 1); (3) coordinated their interative PostScript with Adobe and the DPS people.