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  From: Daryl Tester <dt@picknowl.com.au>
  To  : Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 11:13:11 +1030

Re: Operating systems.

David Newall wrote:

> I think, perhaps, that that is exactly the point.  To draw a screen in
> Windows you use GDI.  To draw the same image on a printer you also use GDI.
> Every program can print using the same code that was needed to display on
> screen.  The same holds true on Macintosh.  Under X this is not true.

Didn't NeWS run Postscript as a "display driver"?  Maybe they weren't
onto a such a bad thing after all.


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Regards,
  Daryl Tester,  Software Wrangler and Bit Herder, IOCANE Pty. Ltd.

"You shouldn't mix meditation with management.  The mind gets too empty."
  -- Dilbert

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