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

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Cheap pays off Although the Adobe group made some key technical breakthroughs, three other components were necessary to make PostScript a runaway success not just in low-volume professional publishing but in the high-volume office environment. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. Today, even Hewlett-Packard Co.

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The Rise of Groupware

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He wrote (with Harvey Lehtman) in Byte magazine in 1988 : The emergence of the personal computer as a major presence in the 1970s and 1980s led to tremendous increases in personal productivity and creativity. A 1996 commercial for Notes highlighted its use by FedEx. A 1996 Inc. It’s become our general manager,” Groveland Trading Co.

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Powered By IEEE Program Saves Startups Money

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Running a startup isn't cheap. Elijah says access to journals and magazines in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library is helping him keep up to date on advances in his field. It will make for more reliable and less costly transmission of information bits between the transmitter and receiver in a wireless environment, Rajanna says.

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The Sneaky Standard

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Commercial - Intel Inside Pentium Processor (1994) www.youtube.com Embracing standards: the computing industry’s gift to itself In the 1980s, when you used the likes of an Apple II or a Commodore 64 or an MS-DOS machine, you were essentially locked into an ecosystem. And some are as cheap as high-end PCs. So how did we get it?

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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. The freedom that allowed us to do the C-64 project will probably never exist again in that environment.” ?Postscript

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