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From: matheny@Unisyn.COM (John Matheny)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: MicroTimes interview with John Warnock of Adobe
Message-ID: <407@unisyn.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 88 04:23:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: unisyn.407
References: <5742@hoptoad.uucp> <4259@adobe.COM>
Reply-To: matheny@Unisyn.COM (John Matheny)
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In article <4259@adobe.COM> greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid) writes:
>All very tricky legal landmines, but I can assure you that Dr. Warnock
>knows exactly what NeWS is, and I think the important message in
>between the lines here is that Adobe has a great interest in Sun
>Microsystems, and would love to see them use our Display PostScript
>implementation rather than a "clone."

Adobe and the PostScript language enjoy a great deal of respect and
credibility in the marketplace.  Most of this is directly
transferrable to Display PostScript and will undoubtably give it an
initial market advantage over NeWS.  However, the fact is that Display
PostScript lacks many of the capabilites of NeWS that are essential.
Therefore, I would like to encourage Adobe and Sun to work with each
other and merge the two systems.  This action would assure the
advancement of the state-of-the-art of display and user interface
technology.

BTW -- The idea of using PostScript for screen displays was originated
at Sun by James Gosling & Co. and was implemented in NeWS long before
Display PostScript.  That makes Display PostScript the "clone", no?

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