jerry@GRANITE.DEC.COM.UUCP (04/22/87)
There is often a great misunderstanding when some people say there is no Interpress machines, and others say "I've been running on one for years." This ambiguity comes from the Xerox idea of subsets. Remeber the 17 flavors of PL/1. The people who say there isn't an Interpress printer are usually talking about V3.0, which to my knowledge has never been fully implemented. What happened to all the previous versions of Interpress? Why, of course, they became subsets of the next version. The confusion is mostly a result of people for ease referring to machines by the type of PDL, not the exact system they are running. I think a 9700 engine running full Interpress, Postscript or DDL would be a kick-a** machine for any short run publication house. Jerry Scharf (my current and previous employers make laser printers, so I am biases. Usual disclaimer about my employer's posistion on this issue and life.)