Computer typography.... (4ip)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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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




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