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

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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. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. “Gee,’ I said, ‘A secret standard—I find this a hard concept to understand.’” 2, 1988, pp.

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The Sneaky Standard

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At the high end of the professional market, workstation-level computing from the likes of Sun Microsystems , Silicon Graphics , and Digital Equipment Corporation suggested there wasn’t room for Intel in the long run. And some are as cheap as high-end PCs. This was a deep underestimation of Intel’s market position, it turned out.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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The photocell, for instance, operating with as little as 15 picoamperes, had to maintain its state in an environment in which the motor, the solenoids, and the firing of the flash lamps drew amperes of current. Still, though the parts were not cheap, costing Fairchild approximately $20 or $30 each, they were manufacturable.

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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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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. Email us directly at greeninc@nytimes.com.

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