Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!rodgers
From: rodgers@cca.ucsf.edu (Rick Rodgers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Request for Postscript display for a Sun
Message-ID: <2310@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 15 Aug 89 21:19:47 GMT
References: <4163@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <17139@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: rodgers@cca.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Rick Rodgers)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computer Center, UCSF
Lines: 24

>  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 ...

Gosh, this is misleading:

1) NeWS is a product of Sun Microsystems, and is licensed through them for
   a variety of machines; it has been available for Suns at a minimal cost.

2) NeWS is *NOT* based on Display PostScript (DP); NeWS is based on PostScript,
   and DP was written *LATER* by Adobe in collaboration with NeXT, Inc.
   Although both derived from a common ancestor, they are *NOT* equivalent.  DP
   is available on the NeXT computer and some IBM workstations.

-- 
R. P. C. Rodgers, Statistical Mechanics of Biomolecules, Dept. of Pharm. Chem.,
University of California, San Francisco CA 94118  (415)476-8910
(ARPA: rodgers@cca.ucsf.edu, BITNET: rodgers@ucsfcca,
UUCP: ...ucbvax.berkeley.edu!cca.ucsf.edu!rodgers)