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From: glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next Wish List
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Date: 28 Nov 90 07:47:29 GMT
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In-reply-to: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us's message of 24 Nov 90 03:37:14 GMT

>This is all just anecdote, and nothing is implied one way or the other.

Yet an Adobe person told me that the product was largely developed
on a cube in the beginning. Oh well, you'd know better than anybody
else here, I imagine.

Say just how much of PS is in the Mac version of Ilus. anyway?
Enquiring minds and all of that stuff.. 

How likely is it that DisplayTalk will be available for the
040 machines any time soon...I just got my copy and am really
not going to be too happy to lose it...

Advertisements for others: if you're doing serious DPS hacking
on your cube, be sure and pick up a copy of "Thinking In PostScript"
by Glenn Reid. It's rather basic for most programmers, but the PS-specific
insights contained in the CS101 examples are far from basic. A beginner
could take this book and become a programmer and in the process (without
knowing it) become a much better PS hacker than most experienced
programmers would be after a week of plowing through the RGB books.
It's given me several ideas already for my program, and I'm only
halfway through with it.

Just sit down with a copy of this book and DisplayTalk and you;ll
ber very fluent in no time flat.

- g