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From: ib@apolling (Ivan N. Bach)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript -- Stop Bashing Adobe
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Date: 28 Feb 90 19:53:58 GMT
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In article <6968@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM 
(Keith Ericson) writes:

>Just out of curiosity, what is it that QMS Inc. does to make its
>money?

Do you mind?  We are trying to have a technical discussion about a very
important aspect of the PostScript language.  If you do not have anything
to contribute, keep your comments to yourself.  Yes, I work for a
manufacturer and distributor of PostScript printers.  I am trying to
improve our products, and save our customers a lot of time and money.
What are you trying to do?

I was hoping that some engineer or scientist from an institution such as
AT&T Bell Laboratories, who is familiar with both PostScript and Claude
Shannon's theory of information, would comment on the efficiency of
PostScript.  What I would like to know is whether Bell Labs would accept
PostScript as designed by Adobe Systems as the ONLY world standard for 
the storing and transmitting of image data, and whether people at Bell
Labs think that we need a more compact representation of PostScript 
statements.

Come to think of it, people from Bell Labs may not want us to add the
support for a binary format to PostScript interpreters.  When we start 
transmitting large numbers of PostScript programs in readable format 
over telephone lines, the revenues of AT&T will increase substantially.

Ivan N. Bach                      Tel (408) 986-9400, x508
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