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From: cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[mav])
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Request for Postscript display for a Sun
Summary: NeWS != display PS
Message-ID: <12039@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 16 Aug 89 13:47:13 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 ...

I don't know how the idea started spreading that NeWS is a form
of Display PostScript.  The first time I saw a reference to this idea was
in a Byte article.

Let me assure you, NeWS is not derived from Display PostScript but was done
independantly by Sun using the Red Book as a guide.  Originally, Adobe
licenced the PostScript name to Sun because NeWS was fully Red Book conformant,
but has since refused to let Sun use the name due to NeWS not being compatible
with Display PostScript (read - NeWS came before Display PostScript).
So far, Sun has used the name PostScript anyway.

In any event, you certainly don't have to talk to Adobe.  In fact, they'll
probably refuse to talk to you about it.  Contact your Sun sales rep.
I believe the cost of NeWS1.1 binaries is around $100, so it shouldn't break
your pocketbook.  X/NeWS, due to come out "any time now", will
support X11 and NeWS simultaneously and without performance degredation
(relative to what I don't know).
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