Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!reading!riddle!domo
From: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Display PS vs NeWS
Message-ID: <941@riddle.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 88 16:29:35 GMT
References: <7361@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Organization: Sphinx Ltd., Maidenhead, England
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In article <7361@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU
	(Wayne A. Christopher) writes:
>Why did NeXT use Display Postscript instead of Sun's NeWS?  How much of
>a difference is there?  Is there any reason to use DP instead of NeWS,
>or is NeXT just trying to be different?  It seems like ignoring
>standards is a big part of their business stragegy...

Er.  NeWS a standard?  Sun would have liked it to be a standard, but,
unlike -- say -- NFS and SPARC, it hasn't caught outside Sun: X is
sweeping it aside even if, arguably, X isn't addressing quite the same
problem as NeWS.  (Hell, corporate deceision makers don't want to be
bothered with little details like that.)

PostScript, on the other hand, is a de-facto standard, and to me, Display
PostScript looks to me like an obvious next step (groan), provided that
its performace is adequate.  According to what I've heard of the NeXT cube,
it is.  Certainly on the Mac, living with QuickDraw on the screen and
PostScript on the printer can be a problem.  Can't it?  You could even
(if you wanted to play the devil's advocate) argue that those who don't
have a (possibly optional) migration path to Display PostScript are the
ones who are ingnoring standards...
-- 
Dominic Dunlop
domo@sphinx.co.uk  domo@riddle.uucp