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I'll take you way back and go with desktop publishing, which was pretty much kicked off with Apple's LaserWriter, which integrated PostScript and the laser prin
by mturmon 14y ago
I'll take you way back and go with desktop publishing, which was pretty much kicked off with Apple's LaserWriter, which integrated PostScript and the laser printer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter).
You could dispute any given example, because there's always a precursor (even if only visible in hindsight, http://booksofnote.blogspot.com/2012/10/kafka-and-his-precursors.html http://booksofnote.blogspot.com/2012/10/kafka-and-his-precur...).
- ajross 14y agoStill missing the point I think. The argument was that Jobs didn't influence any of the funamental technology. PostScript was a rendering language from Adobe, and really not the first path-based rasterizer, but could broadly be called "technology" I guess. Laser printing was a technology. Integrating them by putting a computer running PostScript into a box containing a laser printer is not a technological development in any real sense. That's not saying it doesn't have value. But it's not the kind of thing JBQ was talking about.
- mturmon 14y agoDisagree, but not arguing, because as I said, there's always a precursor.