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7 Best Alternatives To Microsoft Office Suite - 2019 Edition
In article , Dan Purgert
wrote: | Didn't desktop publishing get it's start with Macs? | Probably. And graphics. But that was way back when Apple "Desktop Publishing" being a graphical environment? I think Xerox or Sun was "first" in that regard. Apple just took it away from them pretty quick (and the whole "IBM (clone) with MS Windows" thing didn't really help anyone out). there was nothing to take away. although the xerox star did exist, it was very expensive, very slow, not particularly easy to use, only ran xerox apps (which were very few), only worked with xerox printers and did not sell well. most people never heard of it. i used to use one. the mac is what put desktop publishing on the map. it was far more affordable than the star (by an order of magnitude), faster (even the original) and far more open. third parties could easily write whatever apps they wanted, and did, notably adobe, aldus and quark for desktop publishing, along with countless others. macs could easily output postscript, which could drive anything from a laserwriter printer to high end systems, or print to a less expensive dot-matrix printer with the same page layout, but with a lot lower resolution. was ahead of Windows with graphics. They ended up having a reputation for being superior for a long time. Long after IIRC, the reputation was well earned -- the M68k and later PPC chips had better pipelines when it came to graphics processing than the Intel x86 processors of the day. very much so, along with the os itself which made it very easy to write graphics software (as well as other software). photoshop began on the mac. it wasn't until a few years later that it appeared on windows. want their own control. Macs never became popular until there was a market for casual entertainment use of computers. I recall them being pretty popular when I was a kid -- couldn't find a school around here that didn't have apple ]['s in the computer lab. sure, but those aren't macs. macs were never big in schools, until recently, that is. |
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