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From: jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM (John Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT alternatives
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Date: 6 Apr 89 01:16:43 GMT
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In article <700@adobe.UUCP> greid@adobe.COM (Glenn Reid) writes:
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>Where is Display PostScript?  Where is the "mainframe-on-a-chip"
>architecture?  Where is the Digital Librarian?  Where is Mach?

Now that we're on the subject of Display Postscript, perhaps you folks
could enlighten me (or maybe I can enlighten you)... it seems that
having a postscript interface is not enough.  The question should also
be, "can you program the interface using postscript in the same manner
that Sun NeWS can be tailored with the postcript language?"  From what
I've seen, NeXT offers a postscript DISPLAY and printing capability,
but all of the smarts are embedded within Objective C.  Depending on
what you're doing this may or may not be a disadvantage.  It would
see, however, to be a significant difference between Sun's and NeXT's
philosophy of doing things within the interface and when developing
interfaces.

Or maybe I'm stupid.

Anyway, the world seems to be buying into X Windows wholesale so maybe
someone should be porting X to the NeXT and driving the DP display
with X.






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