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From: jtc@van-bc.UUCP (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Scaleable fonts
Message-ID: <212@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 90 01:32:08 GMT
References: <203@van-bc.UUCP> <132346@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: jtc@van-bc.UUCP (J.T. Conklin)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <132346@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> tut%cairo@Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes:
>Why don't you write the application under NeWS, Display PostScript,
>or X11/NeWS?  I wouldn't exactly say all three are readily available,
>but one of three *IS* available on hardware from (in alphabetic order)
>DEC, NeXT, SGI, and Sun.  This "cons'ing up a mode_def" bit wouldn't
>indicate you have a Symbolics workstation, would it?

The application in question is intended for commercial distribution
for a variety of platforms -- Some without News, Display Postscript,
or X11/NeWS.  Cheap commodity '386's are of particular importance.

No, I don't work on a Symbolics; but I'm a lisp hacker at heart and
sometimes lisp terminology slips in inadvertantly.

	--jtc

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