Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS on non-Sun hardware?
Message-ID: <3106@phri.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 19:46:57 GMT
References: <8801082123.AA11634@ondine.LOCAL>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <8801082123.AA11634@ondine.LOCAL> greid@adobe.UUCP writes:
> NeXT has announced that they will use the Display PostScript system from
> Adobe Systems Incorporated.  This is not NeWS, it is PostScript.

Arrrggghhh!

Just what we need.  Yet Another Standard.  Can somebody please take the
people from Adobe, Sun, and NeXT, put them in a room, and not let them out
until they agree to all do the same thing.  It's 33's vs. 45's all over
again.  Or is that 8-tracks vs. cassettes?  Beta vs. VHS?  RCA vs. Philips
(video disks)?  Kahn vs. Motorolla (AM stereo)?  Sys5 vs. 4.N?
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016