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From: chet@pirate.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Display PS vs NeWS
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Date: 14 Nov 88 20:15:46 GMT
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In article <7361@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) writes:
>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...


NeWS is a standard?  C'mon...  If any window system for Unix machines is 
`standard', it has to be X.  Besides, there are a lot more macs out there than
Unix machines running X, so if anything is really a `standard' it's the 
mac -- and you should see how much DEC is trying to make the VAXstation 
look like a Mac with DECWindows for X11 (no smiley; read the style guide).

Chet Ramey
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