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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: 23 Dec 89 15:35:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    Dec 23 09:35:00 1989


Woody, you haven't suggested *anything* that is device independent.
All your suggestions threaten to ruin the device-independence of
postscript.

Can you think of another thing that became a great success by being
device independent?  I knew you could.  Yes, it's UNIX.  Would you
care to argue further?

Realize that UNIX has wiped out ALL OTHER multitasking minicomputer
operating systems because of its device independence.  It was a long
time before people admitted that UNIX could be as efficient as a
device-dependent assembly-language operating system.  Adobe is
fighting the same uphill battle with printers right now.  You're not
helping any, either.