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NeWS (developed at Sun) and Display Postscript (developed at NeXT) were each adaptations of Postscript to the screen. Apple (after the NeXT takeover) developed

NeWS (developed at Sun) and Display Postscript (developed at NeXT) were each adaptations of Postscript to the screen. Apple (after the NeXT takeover) developed Quartz to avoid paying licensing fees to Adobe for Display Postscript. So yes, Quartz does something similar to NeWS.

setpatchaddress 7y ago
Two corrections: - Adobe was uninterested in supporting Display PostScript by 1997. The cost was secondary. - Quartz / Core Graphics is based on the PDF rendering model, which is derived from PostScript. You use C graphics routines to draw; there is no programming language.