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IBM and Adobe: Together Again!

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From: ksbolduan
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 13:09
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From today's New York Times, March 6, 1990.

	IBM said today that it would use technology from Adobe Systems Inc for
displaying and printing typefaces on virtually its entire line of computers and
printers.
	The endorsement by IBM goes a long way toward reversing a setback
Adobe suffereed last September, when Microsoft and Apple Computer teamed up to
offer a competitive technology for use on personal computers.
	The announcement today throws open the battle for which system will
become a standard. Personal computer users will have to choose which they will
use to generate different styles and sizes of type on computer screens and draw
them on laser printers.
 
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Damn. Let's just hope that TrueType (a.k.a. Royal) can compete. It looks like
IBM really want to start a war, but I'm afraid that Apple may have taken the
losing side on this one. I, for one, would like to see Postscript estalished as
a standard-regardless of whether one's using IBM or Apple. I just hope that
Apple's investment with Microsoft really does work, and that the thousands of
Macintosh postscript users aren't forced to defect to the Dark Side.

Kevin Bolduan '91 Amherst College
KSBOLDUAN@AMHERST
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