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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: Mac LC or NEXT
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Date: 1 Feb 91 15:31:00 GMT
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In article <13255@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> krk@cs.purdue.EDU (Kevin Kuehl) writes:

   Or NeXT could just dump Display PostScript.  God, PostScript was a dog
   when Sun unofficially dumped NeWS (I believe they still support their
   users stupid enough to lock into it) and it is still a dog on the
   Silicon Graphics -- rumors say they are dumping it also.  A graphics
   coprocessor won't help much, PostScript is slow even on a 33 MIPS
   Turbo Iris.
   kuehlkr@mentor.cc.purude.edu

I know people(and have seen a lot of articles posted by people), who
state that Sun should have never dropped News.  They claim it was
great.  Sun still ships News with their OpenLook system(
X11/News/Sunview).  It might be a scaled down version though.  Read
comp.windows.misc and sooner or later someone will mention News.

HP is rumored to have a 50mip machine that they will be releasing
sometime this year.  The entry level price is around $10,000.  I say
bag low-level programming and device-dependant imaging models.
Computer performance is such that we can afford to waste a few mips on
Display Postscript, OO programming, and other high level languages.
You might say "C forever", but will your competition?

-Mike