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  From: michael <michael@home.lyppard.com.au>
  To  : Daryl Tester <dt@picknowl.com.au>
  Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:52:15 +1030 (CST)

Re: Operating systems.

Hi.

Do you mean NeXt? I think it was display postscript, but I heard it was
horribly expensive to license.

Interestingly, Mac OS-X runs pdf for display...

Michael

On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Daryl Tester wrote:

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