From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 15:18:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA18967 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:18:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA18962 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:18:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0trYef-0009Z7C; Tue, 27 Feb 96 15:18 PST Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:17:55 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby To: Narvi cc: "'Christoph Kukulies'" , "'invalid opcode'" , "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Narvi wrote: > > I don't think making a X aware Texinfo would be that hard.... Yeah, it's called GNU Emacs.. :-) But you're missing the point: How do you call it from WITHIN your application in a way that makes sense? > Display Postscript Extension? As far as I remember it's not the Server > but hardware - you pass Postscript commands directly to the graphics > card... Were there such things widely available for the PCs, XFree86 would > support them, I'm pretty sure. Bzzzt! Wrong.. As far as I know, there ARE no video cards that support Postscript commands directly, even for workstations. Suns and other commercial Unixes which use the DPS extension, take the Postscript commands and render them to the screen using normal methods. Now there's nothing to stop somebody from making a Postscript clone (Ghostscript?) X server extension, or even licensing DPS for a commercial X server for FreeBSD, but don't be mistakenly thinking that there's some magic workstation hardware that makes it possible! ---Jake