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From: don@brillig.umd.edu (Don Hopkins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Request for Postscript display for a Sun
Summary: NeWS != Display PostScript
Keywords: NeWS, Display PostScript
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Date: 19 Aug 89 02:31:42 GMT
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In article <17139@ut-emx.UUCP> lihan@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Bruce Bostwick) writes:
>In article <4163@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> fowser@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Scott Fowser) writes:
>>Does anybody know a site to ftp code for displaying Postscript
>>programs on a Sun graphics display?
>
>Get NeWS -- it's a complete desktop system based on Display PostScript.
>With that, using the command 'psh' will give you good PS debugging.
>Don't know exactly where to get it, because I can't seem to recall if it's 
>proprietary or not -- you may have to talk to Adobe ...
>

NeWS is not based on Display PostScript. NeWS was implemented at Sun
by James Gosling and David Rosenthal. Sun licenses the source code
out, with a substantial university discount. Contact Steve Messino at
Sun, (415) 336-2017, for details.

Springer-Verlag has just published "The NeWS Book," by Gosling,
Rosenthal, and Arden. It contains a whole lot of interesting
information about the history of window system architecture, the
PostScript language, and NeWS programming and philosophy. It's a great
introduction to NeWS, with lots of neat pictures!

	-Don