Re: PostScript vs TrueType?

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From: Dick Dunn
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 1990 21:34

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jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker) writes, inter alia:

> I resent it when I have to pay Adobe $1000.00 to get Postscript in
> my printer...

What's the source of this $1000 story?  I've heard it before, but I've
never been able to make sense of it.

Current market price for Adobe's PostScript add-on cartridge for the
LaserJet II is $300--and that's a physical gadget, not just a license.
Seems like a pretty good buy to me.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...I'm not cynical - just experienced.

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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript vs TrueType?
Summary: where does this myth come from, anyway?
Message-ID: <1990Aug24.213407.26653@ico.isc.com>
Date: 24 Aug 90 21:34:07 GMT
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