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From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vince Manis)
Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers
Subject: Re: PostScript and Interpress
Message-ID: <947@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 17:47:07 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  9 17:47:07 1985
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Reply-To: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vince Manis)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science
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Summary: 

I don't want to do a hatchet job on Xerox, but I've seen enough over the
years to make me suspect that Brian's account might have some truth to 
it. I think particularly of the difficulty our Computing Centre has had
in getting detailed technical information on the 9700, for implementing
TeX. Xerox tends to want non-disclosure agreements signed even before 
admitting the existence of documentation. 

I also remember an incident about 10 years ago when a lawyer at PARC
decided that BCPL was a Xerox proprietary product.

In any case, I'm delighted that Xerox has released InterPress, and would
appreciate a posting indicating where Canadian customers can order a copy.
I will pass that information on to our Computing Centre people.

I'm also looking forward to seeing Brian's comparison of the two languages.