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From: malcolm@spar.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Display POSTSCRIPT to be available on DECwindows
Summary: How does a Display Postscript window manager work????
Message-ID: <423@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM>
Date: 24 Jan 88 01:38:11 GMT
References: <8801210012.AA24025@ondine.LOCAL> <20499@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Reply-To: malcolm@spar.slb.com (Malcolm Slaney)
Organization: SPAR - Schlumberger Palo Alto Research
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Posted: Sat Jan 23 20:38:11 1988

In article Mike Khaw writes:
>Does this mean that if DECWindows and/or Display Postscript catch on
>Sun will be forced to announce a new "merged NeWS, X, Display Postscript"
>to conform to de facto standards?

[Perhaps this is common knowledge...but somehow I've missed it.]

A better question is....how does display postscript handle the window manager
functionality?  A recent non technical blurb I saw (I think from DEC) said 
display postscript just does handles the output model and doesn't provide 
for input or window manager functions.

It's easy to see how DEC might just stick a display Postscript interpreter
into a normal X window display but how is Next Inc. going to make it work?

								Malcolm