-=> In a message dated: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:23:01 EST
-=> Niall Kavanagh said:
-=>
-=> >> I think it is fairly safe to say that hell will freeze over first.
-=> >> Display PostScript seems to be widely regarded as a great example of
-=> >> the wrong thing to do.
-=> >
-=> >What makes you say that? (honest question! not a troll!) Seems like it makes
-=> >rather a lot of sense to me; what with the way display technology is taking
-=> >off and all. The current setup of doing stuff on a pixel level will hold us
-=> >back (unless we change the way the pixels are addressed, leaving legacy
-=> >folks rather irritated).
-=>
-=> Display Postscript I think was a great idea, the problem was the
-=> implimentation. First of all, Adobe owns the rights to PS. That right there
-=> means that the technology must be licensed.
-=>
-=> The only company I know of that successfully did anything with DPS was Sun
-=> (though I vaguely remember Apple doing something with it also). Sun used DPS
-=> in their NeWS server technology. This also required proprietary printers from
-=> Sun. It was a good idea, but something went drastically wrong in the
-=> implimentation (though I don't know what, since I never used any of this stuff
-=> :)
-=> --
Ever use a Next cube? Their display was based on DisplayPostscript ...
-dkap
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