Re: why is Postscript like a poorly-adjusted tape drive?

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 12:54

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In article <6954@charon.cwi.nl> jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) writes:
>The best way to judge whether a piece of PostScript code is
>portable is to test it on at least 5 different PostScript printers.

Given how expensive they are, how do you propose the average programmer
do so? I've only got three implementations available, only one by Adobe.
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Subject: Re: why is Postscript like a poorly-adjusted tape drive?
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