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From: "Michael_Powers.Henr801M"@XEROX.COM
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Subject: Re: MicroTimes interview with John Warnock of Adobe
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Date: 29 Oct 88 03:14:33 GMT
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John Matheny writes:
>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?

Actually, this should say the "idea of EXTENDING Postcript to be a FULL
FLEDGED WINDOW SYSTEM" was originated by Jame Gosling. From what I
understand (and certainly how it works inside Xerox) anyone who wishes to
test a Page Description Language implementation usually creates some type
of Screen Display code to see it work prior to actually hooking the system
up to a printer. Therefore Display Postscript probably has existed in
various forms for a long long time. The slowness of it all in times past
probably hindered people from saying "Hey, what if we actually used this as
our display engine...".

Just thought I'd throw in my two cents

Mike Powers
powers.henr801m@xerox.com
Xerox Corp. 1350 Jefferson Road, Rochester, NY 14623