Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!halley!steve From: steve@halley.UUCP (Steve Williams) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Talaris view of PostScript Summary: Used cars, vacation time-shares, transparent to the user Message-ID: <381@halley.UUCP> Date: 15 Jul 88 03:35:00 GMT References: <2273@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: steve@halley.UUCP (Steve Williams) Organization: Tandem Computers, Austin, TX Lines: 22 In article <2273@pt.cs.cmu.edu> moore@PULSAR.FAC.CS.CMU.EDU (Dale Moore) writes: >Here is something that I found in a trade rag called >Digital News July 11, 1988, page 67-69. > >I thought that it might make interesting and amusing reading. > > .........PostScript not only >doesn't provide application software compatibility but it also was >not designed to operate efficiently in the multiuser computing >environment. .............. I think we can infer from this that Talaris (at least in the speaker's understanding; maybe Talaris isn't to blame) is on the verge of introducing a true multitasking printer. That would certainly cool tempers around here at deadline time. ======================= Steve Williams USENET: ...!cs.texas.edu!halley!steve Tandem Computers TELE: (512)-244-8252 14231 Tandem Blvd. Austin, Texas 78728