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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NextStep and NeWS...
Keywords: NextStep,NeWS,Postscript
Message-ID: <3955@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 24 Apr 89 15:37:40 GMT
References: <1041@nixctc.DE> <8530@polya.Stanford.EDU> <3901@ficc.uu.net> <4792@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <4792@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, avie@wb1.cs.cmu.edu (Avadis Tevanian) writes:
> Exactly my point!  You can't write everything in Postscript.  You shouldn't
> have to write everything in Postscript.

Who the hell said you should?

> So, can we lay this to rest by saying that NextStep is a specific UI for
> which it make no significant sense to reimplement features and that if
> you want to have a UI in which any feature was user-implementable you
> could write it in DPS?

What if you want to fix perceived flaws in NextStep, or enhance it? How do
I change NextStep to use pac-man menus? Or use the second mouse button
effectively? Or suppose I want to use your applications under my UI?
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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