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

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That goal led ultimately to a page description language called PostScript, today the de facto standard of desktop publishing. proved loath to support a truly standard language. And Xerox begged the issue of standardization by producing several versions of the language, so the company’s older laser printers could run some form of it.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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The frequency of the carrier signal used to transmit color information in the National Television Systems Committee (NTSC) standard; 3.58 In the NTSC standard, a set of 262.5 You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. television scan lines, transmitted at a rate of 60 per second. It’s only sand.”

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