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From: root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (SBCS Systems Staff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal (IFF QuickDraw)
Summary: NeWS is based on Postscript
Message-ID: <1284@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 15 May 88 00:49:43 GMT
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In article <969@sandino.quintus.UUCP>, pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
> How about postscript?  If the amiga spoke postscript directly to screen,
> you'd have resolution-independence, and compatibility with a popular
> page description language for printers.  Sure would make laser printer
> previewers easier to write!
> -- 
> -Peter Schachte
> pds@quintus.uucp
> ...!sun!quintus!pds

	Ameristar will be marketing a version of Sun Microsystems NeWS
	network window system starting this Summer.  NeWS is based on
	the Postscript imaging model, and has a PostScript interpreter
	built into it.  I will not say much more, as I really don't
	want this posting to get too commercial.

						Rick Spanbauer
						Ameristar, Inc