info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (09/22/84)
From: Wang Zeep <G.ZEEP%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC.ARPA> 1) Rumor from a friend in the business of designing laser printers has Apple using the Post Script protocol from Adobe systems to specify their page layouts. This is important because a) Microsoft and QMS both will support the same protocol. b) Mergenthaler Linotype signed with Adobe to provide high- quality digitized fonts for the PostScript protocol. 2) He also says that it will be massively intelligent and will include a 12 Mhz 68000 and 2 megabytes of 256Kbit RAMs. He cannont see how it will come out for less than $8000. (QMS's version of the Canon is said to be similar and costs $10000). 3) One possibility if this is all true is that Apple may be able to sell IBM compatible laser printers, as Microsoft will surely bring out a PostScript compatible version of Word. wz -------