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From: greid@adobe.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS on non-Sun hardware?
Message-ID: <8801082123.AA11634@ondine.LOCAL>
Date: 9 Jan 88 01:12:34 GMT
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>       I seem to remember hearing somewhere that Steve Jobs NeXT will be
>utilizing NeWS or some variant of NeWS in their forthcoming workstation
>products.  Anyone have any comments on this and any other hardware platforms
>that are jumping on the NeWS bandwagon?  Or is it X or nothing?

NeXT has announced that they will use the Display PostScript system from
Adobe Systems Incorporated.  This is not NeWS, it is PostScript.  Here is
an excerpt from the press release, dated September 9, 1987:

"Adobe Systems Incorporated and NeXT, Inc. have announced the joint
development of a high-performance interactive version of POSTSCRIPT
software technology for use on workstation displays.  Steven P. Jobs,
Chairman and President of NeXT, Inc. made the announcement today during
a speech at the Seybold Desktop Publishing Conference.  The display
version of the POSTSCRIPT software has been under development for 18
months by engineers at both NeXT and Adobe and is called 'Display
POSTSCRIPT' software.

"Display POSTSCRIPT is the first full implementation of the POSTSCRIPT
language with the significant performance enhancements and extensions
necessary to support high-performance interactive displays.  Display
POSTSCRIPT software includes full support for outline fonts, arbitrary
line-widths, rotation, and color.

...

"Display POSTSCRIPT software is independent of windowing systems and
will be demonstrated by Adobe in the summer of 1988."

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Glenn Reid
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
 PostScript Software Support