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

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As they planned to buy whatever hardware they needed after they had perfected their programming language, they focused first on Jam. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. And the ubiquitous Portable Document Format (PDF) is based on PostScript. Today, even Hewlett-Packard Co. Window on PostScript” in MacWeek , Feb.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! We were using people who were there anyway,” said Ziembicki.

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