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

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Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. Convinced that Xerox was making a mistake, Warnock and Geschke left PARC to implement their page description language once again, but this time within a corporation they controlled. San Jose, Calif.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Biggest surprise in career Media hysteria over the microprocessor Patents 17 Books recently read Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Theory by John R. founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, Intel chief executive officer Andrew Grove Favorite restaurants Postrio and Bella Voce in San Francisco, Beausejour in Los Altos, Calif.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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In a recent review of the Summer Games, an Epyx sports game for the C-64, the San Jose, Calif. But as soon as the production bugs were worked out and Commodore knew it had a winner, the corporate bureaucracy, which until then had been on the West Coast dealing with the VIC-20 and the Pet computer, moved in. “At To probe further.

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