#Clone Controllers
04-Oct-89 17:01:42
Sb: #13292-#Clone Controllers
Fm: David Geller 72667,1312
To: Mike Musick/Ass't Sysop 71301,3106
Mike – interesting reading. Do you work for Adobe (I might have said Apple a
year ago). What do you care if some other company trys to compete and build and
better product. Why waste time trying to assault a project before you've seen
the result. Adobe's just been greedy – or maybe you can tell the computer
community why a PostScript laser printer costs more than $3,000 (exception
noted for new projects of Adobe – finally).
I'm a consumer. If fonts can cost less great. If PostScript
interpreters/devices can work faster – great. If clones do a better job –
great.
I'm generally an optimistic person and I look forward to any new software
development that can expand upon a wonderful page description language and
extend it to the screen.
Re: Adobe ATM…I saw it a couple of month ago in beta form. Very impressive.
All this stuff about Apple and MS doing something terrible is alot like people
bashing PC's a few years back. I just picked up a 20 mhz '386 with 8 Mbytes of
RAM for $1500. Thank goodness for clones and competition!
David Geller Washington, D.C.