furuta@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU.UUCP (03/05/87)
Below is an unedited press release that just came in (sorry---I'm a
bit too busy to paraphrase today).
--Rick
press release: Adobe Systems Signs Contract with IBM
World's Largest Computer Manufacturer To Use PostScript.
Palo Alto, CA (3 March 1987) -- Adobe Systems Incorporated has
announced the signing of a contract with International Business
Machines (IBM). Under the terms of the contract, IBM will have
licensing rights to PostScript, the page description language
interpreter developed by Adobe Systems. A simultaneous
announcement was made today by Jeff Mason, General Manager of
IBM's Publishing Systems Business Unit during his keynote speech
at the Corporate Electronic Publishing Systems Conference
(CEPS tm) in Chicago, Illinois.
"Major computer, printer, and typesetting manufacturers have
adopted PostScript as their device independent page description
language," said Dr. Charles Geschke, executive vice-president,
Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Adobe Systems. "To
say we are pleased with this announcement is an understatement,"
continued Geschke.
IBM, the world's largest manufacturer of personal and
mainframe computers, plans to use PostScript as one of the key
foundation elements of their preferred environments for IBM
electronic publishing products. "PostScript will play a
significant role along with other IBM architectures in raising
the level of document communication in all levels of corporate
and commercial publishing," said Jeff Mason, General Manager, IBM
Publishing Business Unit.
Other major computer, printer, and typesetting manufacturers
using PostScript include Agfa-Gevaert, Apollo Computer, Apple
Computer, Dataproducts, Diconix, Digital Equipment Corporation,
ITT Qume, The Laser Connection, Linotype Company, NBI, NEC
Information Systems, QMS, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments
and Wang Laboratories.
Over 200 software publishers also support PostScript
including major industry players such as Microsoft Corporation,
WordPerfect Corporation, MicroPro International, Lotus
Development Coporation, Letraset and Aldus Corporation. In all,
there are over 300 PostScript-based application programs for
both the IBM PC and the Macintosh environments that currently
drive the wide range of available PostScript printers.
In addition to marketing PostScript to OEMs, Adobe also
markets its downloadable Type Library and its most recent
product, the Adobe Illustrator, a second generation graphics
software program for the production of high-quality line art and
illustrations.
For more information about Adobe Systems, PostScript, the
Adobe Type Library and the Adobe Illustrator contact Liz Bond,
Adobe Systems Incorporated, 1870 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto,
California 94303. Telephone: (415) 852 0271.
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PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems
Incorporated. Adobe Illustrator is a registered trademark of
Adobe Systems Incorporated. IBM is a registered trademark of
International Business Machines. Macintosh is a licensed
trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.rusty@WEYL.BERKELEY.EDU (Rusty Wright) (03/05/87)
Maybe we'll get lucky and IBM will develop PostScript printers using the 8088 processor?