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From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Display POSTSCRIPT to be available on DECwindows
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Date: 22 Jan 88 21:10:34 GMT
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In comp.windows.news, mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (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?

Well, since Display PostScript isn't a window server, that's not really
what they'd have to do.  And given that Display PostScript is OUTPUT ONLY, 
I bet it wouldn't be that hard to replace the imaging code in NeWS with 
DPS without seriously changing the lightweight process stuff or the 
PostScript-based input and event-handling mechanisms.