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From: woody@chinacat.unicom.com (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: other page description languages
Message-ID: <1991May24.044839.9063@chinacat.unicom.com>
Date: 24 May 91 04:48:39 GMT
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In article <1538@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> arnold@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Gregory Arnold) writes:
>Hi,
>	
>
>	I'm taking a summer course that deals with the postscript language.
>One of the requirements of this course is a paper that compares postscript to
>other page description languages.  Would some kind soul please give me some

Well, there is the pre-cursor to Postscript, IMPRESS.
There is Kyocera's printer controller language, and there is QUICK. (a QMS
Printer language).  These are all "Page description" languages of
a sort, but with the exeption of IMPRESS fall well short of anything
that Postscript can do.
Cheers
Woody