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Article #9173Re: Mac of the 90's
From: Wayne Folta
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1989 01:56
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1989 01:56
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In article <Dec.8.18.09.58.1989.6188@galaxy.rutgers.edu> perez@andromeda (Willie Perez) writes: >Talking about the 90's, PostScript was the 80's! I hate to say it but Steve >Jobs made mistake #1 with his NeXT. It all depends on PostScript. I worry about QuickDraw. One nice thing about PostScript is that it is universal. I can (with a little difficulty) generate PostScript on my Mac, ship it across a 7-bit communications path--it is ASCII, not binary--and print it on any of dozens of different systems. QuickDraw will never do that. Another thing I really like about PostScript is that, being ASCII, I can edit a graphics file to do things that even the most expensive drawing programs cannot do. QuickDraw, being binary, wouldn't gove me a chance, even with ResEdit. -- Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!mimsy!tove.umd.edu!folta From: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac of the 90's Message-ID: <21189@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 9 Dec 89 01:56:04 GMT References: <Dec.8.18.09.58.1989.6188@galaxy.rutgers.edu> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Reply-To: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) Distribution: usa Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 18