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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. No other publishing package then available used the same software for different output devices. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. That goal led ultimately to a page description language called PostScript, today the de facto standard of desktop publishing. What’s NeXT?

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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Complete plans for the Galaksija were first published in 1983 in an article in the computer magazine Računari u vašoj kući as a joint venture between the Galaksija’s designer, Voja Antonić , and the magazine’s editor, Dejan Ristanović. (An Like many makers, I use a cheap and cheerful TL866-based ROM programmer.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Squibb, were at the time locked in a nasty legal battle over the commercial rights to the antibiotic tetracycline. Tiny, cheap, and almost impossible to detect in action, induction coils were in wide use in wiretapping operations of all sorts by the late 1930s, and nowhere more so than in New York. The two firms, Bristol-Myers and.