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From: abstine@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Display PS vs NeWS
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Date: 14 Nov 88 01:54:05 GMT
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From article <7361@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, by faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher):
> I asked Craig Hansen this question in a talk the other day, and didn't
> get a answer -- maybe somebody here would know.
> 
> Why did NeXT use Display Postscript instead of Sun's NeWS?  How much of
> a difference is there?  Is there any reason to use DP instead of NeWS,
> or is NeXT just trying to be different?  It seems like ignoring
> standards is a big part of their business stragegy...
> 
> 	Wayne
Whats not 'standard' about display PostScript? if you accept that postscript
is a standard, and X windows is a standard, then what isn't standard
about display postscript? who says that Sun is the only company that comes
up with 'standards'?

art stine
sr network engineer
clarkson u