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Subject: Re: PostScript Language
Summary: PostScript origins
Message-ID: <14410@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 90 04:59:17 GMT
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Organization: U of Ky, Math. Sciences, Lexington KY
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In article <149@heaven.woodside.ca.us>, glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) 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.....
> 
> So did the founders, silly, along with the original concept for PostScript.

Well, the original concept for PostScript began when John Warnock was
working for Dave Evans and Ivan Sutherland.  E & S designed a simulator
of New York harbor with full color 3-D representations of everything
in it for the Maritime Academy.  Rather than hard-code the database of
3-D objects in the harbor, they designed a language that would allow
them do describe the objects in a text file, then compile it for
use by the simulator imager.  
  
When Warnock moved to PARC, the harbor simulator design was reimplemented
in a interpreted graphics experimentation workbench which they called
JaM (John and Martin Newell).  This system was the foundation for 
Interpress.  

After leaving PARC and starting Adobe, PostScript became Warnock's third
implementation of the design.
 
John Coppinger
University of Kentucky