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Because "software for printers" is actually not what this is. It is an art project, an "artistic operating system", originally an assignment for design student
by inimino 9y ago
Because "software for printers" is actually not what this is.
It is an art project, an "artistic operating system", originally an assignment for design students, possibly a cruel joke, a "statement".
It's a peculiar failure of comprehension to look at all of that, wonder what it is, then find the software part and come back to the software developer website to report that it is "a set of software for printers".
Like a textile specialist staring at a painting for days, not getting it, then finally looking at the back side and, relieved, going back to report to the Textile News readership that it's a linen canvas, stretched and decorated on one side.
...and then suggesting they really should mount it on the wall the other way so people can more easily see what it is.
- gravypod 9y ago"Artistic operating system?" It says that they created software to interface with networked computers without a screen. Why is that "artistic" and not receptive to the same criticisms that normal technology is. I for one think it's extremely unfortunate that no one bothered to tell them what a Telex was.... Could have saved the team a lot of trouble.
- inimino 9y agoYou're spectacularly (and snarkily) missing the point. It's artistic because it's designed to make you think about different ways of interacting with technology. It is a choice to build a system under imposed constraints, which the Telex obviously was not.