john@caeco.uucp (John Rigby) (04/27/88)
In a recent "Engineering Tools" (April 88) article about X windows I read
something interesting. The article was about how X is becoming
a standard. In the last paragraph of the article I read this:
...there are some emerging alternatives -- such as Adobe's Display
PostScript, which brings the popular PostScript model used in many laser
printers to workstation displays -- for X to cope with. Says Sun
Microsystems' Bill Joy: "Wait until people see Steve Jobs' demo of the
new NeXT workstation, which uses Display PostScript. It will be a bullet
in the head of X.
Am I correct in thinking that this Display Postscript is NOT the Display
Postscript extension to X? Given that it is not, what is it?
Are we going to see an X vs NeWS vs Display Postscript battle?
If Display Postscript becomes popular, could Sun make NeWS compatible
with it? If anyone has some info on all this, I would like to
hear about it.
John Rigby
CAECO Inc.
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