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From: dwf%prudence@LANL.GOV (David W. Forslund)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Rumors?
Message-ID: <8812040436.AA02855@prudence.lanl.gov>
Date: 8 Dec 88 17:59:01 GMT
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>>Has anyone heard any (even slightly) reliable rumors about NeWS being
>>ported to the NeXT cube?

>Who would want it?  When you can have the real thing (PostScript), an
>excellent toolkit, integrated printing, etc..  
> 
>About the only I
can think of, is some weird application which requires 
>round windows.
> 
>	-greg.  
> 

That presumes that no-one has written any interesting applications in
NeWS or perhaps equivalently that the only interesting ones are in
Display PostScript.  The sad fact now is that we have two parallel
(incompatible) extensions to "PostScript" which is only going to make
life hard on the programming community. It would appear that despite
some bugs that NeWS is considerably more mature, powerful, and
accepted than is Display PostScript at this time.  So it seems to me
that an implementation on the NeXT machine would interest a number of
people who might like to integrate the machine into an existing
environment of many other workstations.

Dave Forslund