From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 23:09:24 +0300 From: Harri Haataja Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters In-reply-to: <20060523170757.GB31198@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <20060523200924.GY2564@XTL.antioffline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <283f5df10605230724m725aa5c0xa3685711dab3e653@mail.gmail.com> <20060523170757.GB31198@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 545e7e22-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:07:57PM -0400, plan9@sigint.cs.purdue.edu wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:24:14AM -0400, LiteStar numnums wrote: > > On 5/23/06, erik quanstrom 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.