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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: MicroTimes interview with John Warnock of Adobe
Message-ID: <5742@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 25 Oct 88 00:50:50 GMT
Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco
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[MicroTimes is 'California's computer magazine', back issues available for
$4 from +1 415 652 3810.  The interview is from the Nov88 issue, pg 52.]

Steve Guttman and Mary Eisenhart interviewed John Warnock, founder of Adobe,
at a recent conference.  He mentions Sun and NeWS several times, e.g.:

"Q: Will we be seeing PostScript on a RISC chip anytime in the future?
 A: Actually, we ported Display PostScript to the (IBM) PC-RT, which is RISC,
    and we've also ported it to the SPARC chip, which is on the Sun 4..."

"Q: Sun has some kind of Display PostScript system interpreter in their
    NeWS system.  Does that make them a competitor in any sense?
 A: They've implemented their own interpreter, I guess.  I would rather
    have that kind of competitor than this Presentation Manager stuff.
    At least they're spiritually for the same purposes."

"Q: Are there any UNIX machines that PostScript graphics are currently 
    running on?
 A: There's Sun's implementation of NeWS...  No, there really isn't, except
    in our laboratories.  Actually, NeXT will be the first Display PostScript
    platform."

To me it sounds like he thinks NeWS really *is* a PostScript implementation,
but keeps remembering that the Adobe lawyers tell him to say it isn't...
-- 
John Gilmore    {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid,amdahl}!hoptoad!gnu    gnu@toad.com
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