On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:07:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:24:14AM -0400, LiteStar numnums wrote: > > On 5/23/06, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> DPS was the basis for OpenWindows and NeXTStep. > >> > > Wasn't NeWS 'doubly' PostScript: Display on one side, description > > betwixt client & server?
> Would be neat if someone cloned NeWS using Ghostscript as the engine, > but Apple has already done Quartz with PDF, so I suppose PostScript is > passe'. (Sorry, my old xterm doesn't do combined characters, just to > jerk the thread back on track.) Naturally an interested party re DPS was GNUStep. http://gnustep.org/information/mission.html contains: " GNUstep has split the GUI into a front-end GUI "interface" and a backend window-server specific implementation. With this architecture it is possible to support several window-server backends (DPS, X, libart, Windows). Our main interest is supporting the Display PostScript drawing model (at least conceptually), but we may support other models in the future. " I think they've only managed X11 though, but ICBW. -- Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity.
