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From: greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Re : Display PS vs NeWS
Summary: tsk tsk
Keywords: NeWS is a superset of POSTSCRIPT!
Message-ID: <109@adobe.COM>
Date: 16 Dec 88 20:50:15 GMT
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In article <2391@ssc-vax.UUCP> benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) writes:

 >> PostScript, on the other hand, is a de-facto standard, and to me, Display
 >Again complete SHEER IGNORANCE.  NeWS IS a Postscript *superset* - 

 >I am sorry for the flame...but next time you post facts ... do a little
 >research first.  X/Display Postscript has alot of potential...but quite
 >simply (because NeWS is a superset of DP) X/NeWS has alot more potential.

Tsk, tsk.  He who lives by the, er, sword, dies by it, I suppose.  Do
you really know anything about Display PostScript?  Have you ever
looked up the word "superset"?

Please be careful what you say out there, folks.  There are lots of
opinions, and we want to share useful information, not post flames.
The Display PostScript's operator set and NeWS are intersecting sets,
where Red Book PostScript is roughly the area of intersection.  They
are completely different implementations, and differ in many other
ways, but it is incorrect as well as a trivialization to say that NeWS
is a superset of Display PostScript.

And also, Display PostScript has nothing to do with X windows, other
than the ability to ge integrated into it.  The NeXT machine does not
run X windows; it draws its windows with Display PostScript.

Sigh.

Glenn Reid
Adobe Systems