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From: pollack@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jordan B. Pollack)
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Subject: Postscript Patent?
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Date: 16 Feb 89 15:49:56 GMT
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In-reply-to: greid@adobe.com's message of 16 Feb 89 02:04:55 GMT

Glen Reid, writes:

> We have a proprietary implementation of a PostScript interpreter dating
> from 1985, and are well known as its inventor.

Not to pick nits, but this is sorta like Apple or Microsoft 
claiming to have invented window systems.

I thought that Postscript was just Xerox's INTERPRESS with a
symbol table... 

Who holds the patents?