11 Jul
2010
11 Jul
'10
3:25 p.m.
Am 2010-07-11 um 22:53 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
SUSE had (have?) a graphical menu extension to GRUB boot loader written in PostScript. Don't ask me why I remembered this now, but I always found it one of most weird uses of PostSscript I've ever seen.
NextStep's whole screen graphics was DisplayPostScript - in NS's successor OSX it became PDF (Aqua is based on a PDF graphics model; didn't research what's left of it today). I read, PostScript was also used for industrial robotics, because it's geometrical calculations were unique. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)