ksbolduan@amherst.bitnet (03/06/90)
From today's New York Times, March 6, 1990. IBM said today that it would use technology from Adobe Systems Inc for displaying and printing typefaces on virtually its entire line of computers and printers. The endorsement by IBM goes a long way toward reversing a setback Adobe suffereed last September, when Microsoft and Apple Computer teamed up to offer a competitive technology for use on personal computers. The announcement today throws open the battle for which system will become a standard. Personal computer users will have to choose which they will use to generate different styles and sizes of type on computer screens and draw them on laser printers. [stuff deleted] Damn. Let's just hope that TrueType (a.k.a. Royal) can compete. It looks like IBM really want to start a war, but I'm afraid that Apple may have taken the losing side on this one. I, for one, would like to see Postscript estalished as a standard-regardless of whether one's using IBM or Apple. I just hope that Apple's investment with Microsoft really does work, and that the thousands of Macintosh postscript users aren't forced to defect to the Dark Side. Kevin Bolduan '91 Amherst College KSBOLDUAN@AMHERST