Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu!srp From: srp@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Display Postscript (Re: Irix 4.0 Statement of Direction) Message-ID: Date: 19 Dec 90 16:48:03 GMT References: <1990Dec19.032514.27346@odin.corp.sgi.com> Sender: daemon@cgl.ucsf.edu Lines: 32 karlton@sgi.com (Phil Karlton) writes: [... all sorts of nifty stuff deleted ...] > Other things will be happening, and I don't know the content. The > major purpose of the original announcement was to give early warning > that a currently supported feature is being withdrawn with IRIX 4.0, > i.e., there will be no NeWS window manager. (Don't forget that > PostScript rendering will be supported through the DPS X extension.) Does this mean that DPS service will be some sort of X client, or will DPS be built into the X server, or something else all together? I'm really sorry to see NeWS fall by the wayside: indeed it surprises me that noone else has said as much. From what I have experienced, NeWS seems technologically superior to X. But as is painfully evident, X has become something of the industry standard. I appreciate the openess and detail with which SGI is letting us know what direction they are taking. >PK "They shoot window servers, don't they" - Scott Presnell -- Scott Presnell +1 (415) 476-9890 Pharm. Chem., S-926 Internet: srp@cgl.ucsf.edu University of California UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!srp San Francisco, CA. 94143-0446 Bitnet: srp@ucsfcgl.bitnet