On Apr 3, 2010, at 10:26 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:42 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> .. To run something like Photoshop 20 years ago you needed a couple hundred >> thousand dollar workstation. Very few places outside of scientific >> establishments had those kinds of things to mess around on. > > 1984-1988: I was writing software to do what Photoshop does for me > now. It was a NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and my computer system > was a $30 Million dollar installation based on DEC VAX 780/785 > computers. > --
Nevertheless, PhotoShop 1, which was released in 1990, was written for Macs. Not, as Peter said, for "couple hundred thousand dollar workstations." No, it didn't have anywhere near the capability of later versions, but we were able to use it effectively to create ads and product brochures. Paul > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
