Re: [FRIAM] Owen Densmore, father of object-oriented postcript in NeWS object.ps, desktop publishing and relation to NEXT [was: Re: naive question]

Here's a fun speculative question to: how different would the computing landscape look now: if apple dug clones, and decided they were worth it? and what if BeOS did become apples new OS?--I feel like I aged myself. On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 8:50 AM Gillian Densmore wrote: > IIRC very badly as

Re: [FRIAM] Owen Densmore, father of object-oriented postcript in NeWS object.ps, desktop publishing and relation to NEXT [was: Re: naive question]

IIRC very badly as was MacOS was held back by...games of all things. But IIRC Adobe was quickly onto apples because picky people liked how it handled colours. That is compared to Windows 3.1 and 94(?) lol and yes Dad is a hero. LOL and yes I am biased. Pagemaker ? wowsa that's a name from the

[FRIAM] Owen Densmore, father of object-oriented postcript in NeWS object.ps, desktop publishing and relation to NEXT [was: Re: naive question]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 11:30 AM Steve Smith wrote: > My copy of Glenn Reid's 1990 Thinking in PostScript > > sat on my shelf for two decades singing a siren song that wasn't ever quite > strong enough for me to