Jelks Cabaniss wrote:

>
> Nicholas Bodley wrote:
> (quoting, I think, Suzanne -- I must have missed the original ...)
>
> >> With the laser printer and the PostScript language introduced in
> >> 1987, the revolution in "desktop publishing" was born.
>
> >From memory, that seemed a bit later than I recalled, and ...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript
>
> indeed confirmed that the Apple LaserWriter I (the first commercial
> Postscript printer) shipped in March, 1985. 1985 was also the year that
> PageMaker was born.

And after 20 years it still doesn't have anywhere near the capabilities
of FrameMaker, which Adobe bought up a few years ago for the purpose of
putting a (superior) competitor out of business, and indeed discontinued
it a year or so ago.

> Two of the (many) beginnings of what we have today, 20 years later. Six
> years later, Unicode 1 arrived. Now, *all* of today's operating systems
> incorporate it. Pretty amazing.

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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...