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Computer typography.... (4ip)
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:29:19 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: mo () ccr org (Mike O'Dell) Date: June 17, 2005 7:16:51 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Computer typography.... (4ip) If people have other righteous grievances with Steve Jobs, fine, but denying Apple the popularization of desktop publishing is revisionist at best. True, the first systems to do anything like computer typography were built at Xerox PARC. however, as someone who tried for several years to buy an Interpress-capable Xerox laser printer for a government lab, the notion that donating 2 or 3 "Dovers" to MIT, CMU, and Stanford constituted "general availability" is plain silly. It was, in fact, Apple that drove general availability of Postscript Laser Printers and sofware that could readily drive them. in fact, as other can explain in more detail, the reason Postscript (and Adobe) came to exist was frustration on the part of people at PARC with Xerox's intransigence at releasing products containing the PARC technology. tired old reference to the book "Fumbling the Future" not needed at this point... (grin) -mo ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [USER_EMAIL] To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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