Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!pan!aratar!chac
From: chac@aratar.UUCP (Chuck Clanton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Rumors?
Message-ID: <330@aratar.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 17:04:35 GMT
References: <8812040436.AA02855@prudence.lanl.gov>
Reply-To: chac@aratar.UUCP (Chuck Clanton)
Organization: Adasoft AG, Solothurn, Switzerland
Lines: 13

In article <8812040436.AA02855@prudence.lanl.gov> dwf%prudence@LANL.GOV (David W. Forslund) writes:
>That presumes that no-one has written any interesting applications in
>NeWS or perhaps equivalently that the only interesting ones are in
>Display PostScript.

This discussion seems to miss at least some of the distinction between
the two as I understand it.  NeWS is a programmable windowing system using
a postscript-like language.  Display Postscript provides a way to put
postscript output on a screen.  Display Postscript does not have the 
primitives for building a windowing system.  They presumably overlap 
considerably on the output side, but not on the input side.  And, even on
the output side, DP is likely to be missing capabilities needed for
building a screen server.  I have never used DP so perhaps this is wrong?