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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Tale of Xerox marketing woe...
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Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 19:31:54 EDT
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>    Second, I asked what I thought to be a simple question, "Which of these
> printers supports Interpress?"  Much to my surprise, the answer took the form
> of a question, "What is Interpress?"  I said, "It is a sophisticated and
> powerful page description language and part of XNS."  "Oh, who makes it?"
> 
>    Now at this point, I'm getting pretty worried, but I decide to pursue this
> a bit further, so I tell the poor guy that Xerox does.  Well he promises to
> check on this with some guys who know all about Xerox printers.  A week later
> he tells me that he got the same response from the "experts" that I got from
> him.

I have a document from Xerox titled "Open Communications: System
Interconnection, Integration and Architecture" and in it they say:

"Xerox has implemented Interpress capabilities in over 19 products:
...
NS 8000, 3700, 4050, 8700 and 9700...

Interpress is a Xerox Print Standard and all appropriate current and
future Xerox products will support Interpress."

I realize this doesn't help you get more info but it shows some kind
of commitment to Interpress from Xerox.

	Phil Ngai