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From: kchen@Apple.COM (Kok Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript Language
Message-ID: <38949@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 25 Feb 90 19:25:39 GMT
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woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:

>True, but the degrees didn't necessarily enable them to do it.  Remember,
>the concept was NOT original with them.  It came from PARC.....


I agree about the bit on formal diplomas (but, if more diplomas don't 
hinder your innovative thinking, they really don't do any harm :-); but 
Woody, you may want to trace the Interpress history back a little to 
find out who some of the people in that Xerox/PARC project were.  

Granted, you may contend that it all started further back at PARC with
PRESS (Sproull et. al.).  But PRESS, if I remember correctly, was a
flat langauage (I do remember vividly, however, crashing the Dover at
Stanford numerous times by trying to send my own graphics PRESS commands 
to it - I can admit that, now that the statute of limitations has 
passed :-) :-).   PRESS, by my recollection, was akin to something like 
PCL and imPRESS.  

Oh yes, Jingbai, Interpress has all the closepath, fill, etc. features
that you deemed so important to PostScript's success and yet it has 
never attained the position PostScript holds (whoops, now I will have 
the folks at Webster labs on my back :-).  Gosh, even PRESS (ca. 1976?) 
and imPRESS (ca. 1980) have closepath and fills way back when, in real-
world printers that you can touch (and even program, if you are among 
the lunatic frindge :-).

Quick, Woody - what gets returned on the stack with a PostScript
"cachestatus" command?   *RIGHT NOW*(TM), no fair looking at the manual!
:-) :-)  (Just kidding.)

Wow, and all this started with Ivan giving the hex (pun intended) to
PostScript.


Regards,

Kok Chen				kchen@apple.com, AA6TY
Apple Computer, Inc.