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From: guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS on non-Sun hardware?
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Date: 10 Jan 88 02:02:19 GMT
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> "Display POSTSCRIPT software is independent of windowing systems and
> will be demonstrated by Adobe in the summer of 1988."

So what window system will NeXT be running Display PostScript atop?

(And yes, from what I've heard, I'll agree that Display PostScript is not NeWS;
NeWS currently implements what could probably be called a subset of PostScript
with extensions - the extensions permit PostScript code to manage input as well
as render images on the screen.  I don't know whether Display PostScript
handles input as well as output, but I suspect it doesn't.

At some point, I presume we intend to finish implementing those parts of
PostScript not already implemented in NeWS, as well, making the PostScript
implemented by NeWS a proper superset of what is described in the Red Book.  I
don't work in the NeWS group, so for all I know this may already have been
done.

If there are cases where the NeWS interpreter does not properly implement
something as per the Red Book, as opposed to not implementing it at all yet,
that's probably a bug.)
	Guy Harris
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