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From: mh@roger.imsd.contel.com (Mike Hoegeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript on Computer Displays
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.224629.19668@wlbr.imsd.contel.com>
Date: 3 Jun 91 22:46:29 GMT
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In article <1991Jun3.140245.13924@engage.pko.dec.com> davis@3d.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis) writes:
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>In article <284554CA.424F@deneva.sdd.trw.com>, thomsen@spf.trw.com (Mark R. Thomsen) writes...
>>I have three questions.
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>>Question 1: Are there computers other than NeXT (DPS), SGI (NeWS),
>>and Sun (NeWS) that create graphics for the computer screens in
>>PostScript - real, planned, or mythical?
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>DEC's DECwindows system includes the Display PostScript X extensions.
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NeWS runs on other things like mac II's and 386 PC's under OS/2 I think.

If you are really ambitious and have the bucks, you can buy the
X11/NeWS source for like 1000 dollars and hack away. Supposedly it
comes with some nice porting guide documentation and is relatively
painless to get it running quickly on dumb framebuffers.