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From: mday@cgl.ucsf.edu (Mark Day)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS on non-Sun hardware?
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Date: 15 Jan 88 23:16:34 GMT
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In article <8801082123.AA11634@ondine.LOCAL> greid@adobe.UUCP writes:
>
>"Display POSTSCRIPT software is independent of windowing systems and
>will be demonstrated by Adobe in the summer of 1988."

Actually, There is a demo of Display Postscript going on as I am typing.  In
the Adobe both at MacWorld Expo, Display Postscript is running on a Mac II,
Sun 3/50, an IBM RT and a couple other workstations that escape my mind.  The
Adobe representative went to great lengths to explain to me that NeWS programs
may not run on Display POSTSCRIPT because NeWS doesn't completely follow the 
PostScript standard.

*SIGH*  it is bad enough to have to write programs for a variety of windowing
(or display) systems.  But to have multiple standards for PostScript display
systems is ridiculous.

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