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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
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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.


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