Re: promoting dylan

• To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
• Subject: Re: promoting dylan
• From: brucehoult@pobox.com (Bruce Hoult)
• Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 00:15:02 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: The Internet Group Ltd
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In article <3929B2A6.52AE8B38@us.oracle.com>, Roman Budzianowski
<rbudzian@us.oracle.com> wrote:

> BTW. does anybody know what display technology OS X is using (didn't see a
> mention of X Windows on Apple site).

As was announced at the May 1998 WWDC, OS X is using "Quartz" as the display
and stored picture technology.  Quartz is to PDF as NeXT's Display
Postscript is to PostScript.  It's a 2-D display system using PostScript
primitives but based on a data structure rather than a programming
language.  When you copy & paste things between applications, what you
copy and paste will be exactly PDF.

I'm not aware of Apple having announced support for X, but it's a
certainty that if they don't then 3rd parties will step in -- it's just
not that hard these days, and there is excellent open-source X support in
e.g. LinuxPPC, VNC and so forth.

-- Bruce

• promoting dylan
• From: "Schlichte, Marc, MTC-DTM, MSCHL" <Marc.Schlichte@PASSO.DE>
• Re: promoting dylan
• From: Roman Budzianowski <rbudzian@us.oracle.com>

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