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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Navy Document Interchange Format (DIF) and Xerox 8010 "STAR"
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 23:34:59 EDT
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>                The most interesting possibility which all this has  to offer
>           to  UNIX  types,  involves  the  Xerox 8010 "Star".

An even more interesting possibility for UNIX types is the Interleaf
document preparation system.  It's more interesting because it runs under
UNIX on Suns; I believe it also runs on Apollos, although I don't know what
OS it runs under, and it may run on other UNIX workstations with large
bit-mapped displays.  It's a *very* fast WYSIWYG editor (it reformats
paragraphs *and* pages as you type), and supports graphics as well.

The Xerox D-machines run Pilot rather than UNIX, although I've heard
rumblings about C compilers (although ask anybody who's done a C compiler
for a vanilla Perq about how easy it is to do C compilers and libraries for
word-addressed stack machines).  Xerox has finally released the Xerox
Development Environment, at least for the 6085.

I don't know if there are DIF functions for Interleaf, but it's worth asking.

Interleaf is in Cambridge; I don't have any more information on them.

	Guy Harris