[geeks] Does size matter

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:33:49PM -0500, Erie Patsellis wrote:
>> IIRC, the Next had display postscript, and it worked the way things
>> are supposed to, when you told it you wanted to view larger, it did,
>> then again, it's been quite a few years since I've sat in front of one.
> 
> Speaking of quite a few years, SunOS had it too. I think it was Solaris
> 1.1, aka SunOs 4.1.3, but I can't remember for sure. I ran it on a pizza
> box SPARC circa 1997.
> I did not use it for long, I was modifying X-Windows for it from the
> MIT source code for work and used that instead.
> 

Are you talking about NeWS, which was based on PostScript and was
separate from X11, or about the X11 server extension Display PostScript
, sometimes called DPS/X?

Even the Sun3 had NeWS.  NeWS was written by James Gosling, author of
Gosling Emacs, the Andrews integrated apps, Java, etc.

--Patrick