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From: doc@fajita.UUCP (Tom Dockery)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: RE: NeWS and DPS
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Date: 4 Jan 89 00:45:39 GMT
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John Gilmore notes:

>After reading much of the DPS preliminary manual, my evaluation of the
>situation is that Adobe has largely reimplemented NeWS, but changed all
>the names of everything so that applications will not port between them.
>
>Clearly there are design differences in spots, and Adobe has made some
>performance hacks at the language level, where Sun didn't feel the
>need; but there is a strong fundamental similarity of design.

If the designs are that similar, then perhaps the solution, as others
have already mentioned here, is for the user community to develop a
de facto standard NeWS/DPS interface package.  Owen Densmore's class.ps
might fit here, as would a file (or files) of synonym and compatibility
definitions.

We have not yet begun to look at DPS, but as developers who desire as
wide a range of hardware platforms as is reasonably supportable, it
could be a fairly rational (or at least not too irrational) direction.

Tom Dockery		...!sun!suntan!fajita!doc
Market Focus Technologies, Inc. (but don't blame them for my opinions)