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I was digging into the history of PostScript engines inside laser printers and Adobe made tons of royalty money off of that for quite a long time.
by tonyarkles 1mo ago
I was digging into the history of PostScript engines inside laser printers and Adobe made tons of royalty money off of that for quite a long time.
- tonyedgecombe 1mo agoThey needed more memory and a faster processor as well which bumped the price up. In the mid eighties I worked for a company distributing QMS printers in the UK. A basic laser was selling for £2,000 and the PostScript equivalent was £4,000.
- ValdikSS 1mo agoPrinters of the 80s and early 90s were more performant PCs than the typical PC which printed on it. Because you can't process full color 600 DPI page on the 90s PC with 8-16 MB of RAM, but the printer needs to do that.