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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript -- Stop Bashing Adobe
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Date: 28 Feb 90 17:39:57 GMT
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> Nor have I seen anyone show even a plausible fragment of a replacement or
> competitor for PostScript.  It's *just* noise, and it's rude to keep
> dumping nontechnical crap into a (formerly) technical newsgroup.

Well, perhaps you should look into the Xerox interpress
page-description language, the technical parent of postscript.

It is probably true that if Xerox had released interpress two years
earlier, the name of this group would be named comp.lang.interpress,
rather than comp.lang.postscript.  Postscript was in the right place
at the right time to satisfy a need, and there was a dirt cheap laser
printer to run it.  Put interpress in the same position, and you would
have seen similar results.

In some ways, Postscript is a workhorse, just like the IBM PC, or
Fortran IV.  But why do you assume it has no competition?


Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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