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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: <1991May26.043008.10333@chinacat.unicom.com>
Date: 26 May 91 04:30:08 GMT
References: <1538@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> <1991May24.044839.9063@chinacat.unicom.com> <53324@apple.Apple.COM>
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In article <53324@apple.Apple.COM> kchen@Apple.COM (Kok Chen) writes:
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>Perhaps Woody is confusing imPRESS with the stillborn DDL from 
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About 5 years ago, when we had just started selling QMS printers, and
I was just learning postscript, I ran across  an ice-cream cone coded
in a language much like Postscript.  I guess I must have mis-remembered
the name (it was after all, 5 years ago).  I converted it over to postscript,
and as I recall it, it took almost no effort.  The language was extremely
close to Postscript.  I seem to recall that it was a XEROX internal language
used for creating documents, and when I checked into it and tried to get
some technical info on the supported commands, etc.  I was unable to.
AT the time, we were looking at various PDL languages as possible alternatives
to Postscript.  Needless to say, that search took very little time.  I do
remember getting into many protracted arguments with our HP rep who
insisted that DDL was the wave of the future, and refused to accept
Poscript.  He hung in there until HP formally dropped DDL.

From what people are saying, I must have indeed mixed it up with INTERPRESS,
though I still seem to recall it as impress  |-)  Oh well, I guess that
sort of stuff happens after 35.

Cheers
Woody
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>Regards,
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>Kok Chen, AA6TY				kchen@apple.com
>Apple Computer, Inc.