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From: mrh@camcon.uucp (Mark Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: PostScript standard?
Message-ID: <976@titan.camcon.uucp>
Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 06:38:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  5 06:38:02 1987
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in article <61@bacchus.DEC.COM>, kent@decwrl.dec.com (Christopher A. Kent) says:
> 
> Excuse me? PostScript may be a trademark, and the cost ...
> ... may be $100,000, but neither of these facts
> stop you from going out and developing your own implementation. That's what Sun
> did. That's what some folks at Berkeley did. All it takes is careful reading
> of the Red Book and lots of hacking.

Phoenix, authors of a cloned BIOS for *the* PC, have started marketing
a clone of PostScript. Hopefully this will result in some cheaper laser
printers emerging before long. I read somewhere that in addition to
the large initial licence fee, manufacturers have to pay Adobe a royalty
of several hundred dollars per printer.

Mark Hughes

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