Re: What's going on at Abode? Stock up over 5 points!

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From: Scott Boyd
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 19:22

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larry@csccat.UUCP (Larry Spence) writes:
>In article <9889@unix.SRI.COM> schwer@unix.sri.com (Len Schwer) writes:
>>
>>I've noted the price of Adobe stock has moved up over 5 points
>>in the past two day; not including today. Must be something
>>impressive happening to cause 20% increase in two days!

>I believe that IBM adopted Adobe's font technology for OS/2.  This 
>brings up the gruesome scenario of different font formats in IBM's OS/2
>and Microsoft's OS/2.  Ugh.  I'll be curious to see how the Adobe 
>hinting scheme compares with the Apple Royal scheme, which seems very
>general.

Actually, IBM just stated they weren't taking sides in the Adobe versus
Microsoft/Apple debate. They will let the market decide. In the meantime,
Microsoft announced that will provide it's font technology with the 
generic version of OS/2. Of course, Microsoft doesn't have anything to
ship -- so its all vapor anyway.


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