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From: wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM
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Subject: Re: Files VS Blocks, a compromise
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Date: 19 Oct 90 01:29:27 GMT
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> Hi, I'd help with Design and Implementation If we based it on Display
> Postscript rather than "brain Dead" X. Really! We could then put X
> on top of that for sales. FIFTH people have a custom Postscript,
> and NEWS (SUN) and NEXT all are DPS based.

The intersection of the set of Forth users and the set of PostScript-based
window system users is pretty small.

This is one of those things that would be a lot of fun to implement, and
nobody (to a first approximation) would use it.

The intersection of Forth and X is about the same size.

By the way, the fact that the Fifth people have implemented PostScript
in Fifth is pretty much useless for our purposes; that PostScript clone
was developed under contract to a manufacturer of laser printers, whose
name the Fifth people are not allowed to disclose.  I don't know myself;
I asked Paul Snow directly, and he wasn't allowed to answer.

Mitch