MacWEEK articles from July 1988

MacWEEK archives from July 1988

A-UX upgrade to enhance access to Mac Toolbox.
July 5, 1988... A/UX upgrade to enhance access to Mac Toolbox CUPERTINO, Calif. -- A/UX cane to life as a full implementation of AT&T's UNIX System V. Step by step, it also is gaining full access to the traditional Mac operating environment. Apple will...

Apple will revise System 6.0; developers criticize how bugs are reported.
July 5, 1988... Apple will revise System 6.0 CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Less than two months after System Software Update Version 6.0 was frozen and less than 20 days after its official release. Apple has announced that it will revise the software to squash...

QuickDraw-based slidemaker debuts.
July 5, 1988... QuickDraw-based slidemaker debuts SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Encouraged by analysts' predictions that the demand for computer-generated slides will more than double in the next five years, Presentation Technologies this week announced a new...

Customer services touted in new Apple shuffle.
July 5, 1988... Customer services touted in new Apple shuffle CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Creating a new organization chartered to enhance its relationships with users and shifting responsibility for product marketing to Senior Vice President Jean-Louis Gassee, Apple...

ACIUS' skeleton will simplify 4D programming. (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... ACIUS' Skeleton will simplify 4D programming CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Responding to user criticism that creating customized databases with its 4th Dimension software was too difficult for many users, ACIUS Inc. of Cupertino, Calif., is preparing to...

Tangent Technologies folds.
July 5, 1988... Tangent Technologies folds NORCROSS, Ga -- Cash-strapped Tangent Technologies Inc. collapsed last week after losing a three-year financial tug of war. The company, which made a variety of AppleTalk-compatible connectivity products, went out...

Seagate raises prices of some hard drives.
July 5, 1988... Seagate raises prices of some hard drives SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. -- Seagate Technology initiated the first price increase in its 10-year history last week, hiking prices by as much as 5 percent on some models of its hard disk drives. "We're...

Electronic Arts plans paint package for fall. (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... Electronic Arts plans paint package for fall SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Electronic Arts plans a September release for its new high-end color paint program for the Mac II. The program has been dubbed Studio 8 and will retail for $495, said...

Farallon targets presentations and training.
July 5, 1988... Farallon targets presentations and training BERKELEY, Calif. -- "Our idea of desktop presentations is that they take place on your desk, on your screen," said Reese Jones, president of Farallon Computing. "And presentations don't have to be just...

Apple, STF Technologies race to ship fax modems; Abaton close behind. (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... Apple, STF Technologies race to ship fax modems CUPERTINO, Calif. -- The long and surprisingly slow race to get a Mac fax modem to market is drawing to a close, and it looks like Apple will finish in a dead heat with a Missouri competitor if both...

Paracomp to ship multipurpose 3-D program. (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... Paracomp to ship multipurpose 3-D program SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- 3-D is coming to the Macintosh, and Paracomp Inc. intends to be part of the rush. This month the company will begin shipping Swivel-3D, a modeling program for product design,...

Quark alliances on eve of XPress 2.0 debut.
July 5, 1988... Quark alliances on eve of XPress 2.0 debut DENVER -- Although it's busy readying the new version of its Quark XPress desktop publishing program, Quark Inc. also has found the time to make strategic alliances and to put in place satellite offices...

Italian foundation donates Mac-based encyclopedia.
July 5, 1988... Italian foundation donates Mac-based encyclopedia NEW YORK -- Combining "Old World publishing know-how and New Age technology," one of the largest private, non-profit foundations in the world announced last week that it was donating a...

For the record.
July 5, 1988... FOR THE RECORD In our May 31 issue, we quoted figures from Santa Clara Consulting Group regarding vendor market share for the 1987 U.S. 3.5-inch floppy disk market. Those figures have been revised as follows: Sony 34 percent, Maxell 16 percent,...

Apple sounds serious at summer NAMM expo. (National Association of Music Merchants)
July 5, 1988... Apple sounds serious at summer NAMM expo ATLANTA -- If there was any doubt before, the Summer NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) International Music and Sound Expo proved that Apple is picking up the tempo in its pursuit of the music...

Z-Lot readies animation, desktop presentation programs. (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... Z-Lot readies animation, desktop presentation programs MONTREAL -- To hear Richard Brandow tell it, the Mac software market is in for a major shakeup, thanks to his latest venture. The 24-year-old Brandow, whose name to many has become...

Kiwi enhances envelope printing DA.
July 5, 1988... Kiwi enhances envelope printing DA SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Further simplifying the envelope-printing process, Kiwi software Inc. has enhanced its KiwiEnvelopes desk accessory with Version 2. The program offers several new features, such as...

HyperCard interface for MacPacq hardware. (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... HyperCard interface for MacPacq hardware GOLETA, Calif. -- In a data-acquisition industry first, Biopac Systems has developed a HyperCard interface for its MacPacq data-acquisition hardware. MacPacq is a $1,95 serial-port device designed to...

Fifth Generation unbundles Pyro! 3.0. (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... Fifth Generation unbundles Pyro! 3.0 TUSTIN Calif. -- Mac users who like to celebrate the Fourth of July every day will soon get a new way to do so -- and help preserve their Mac monitors to boot. A new version of Pyro!, a popular screen...

MacInTouch.
July 5, 1988... MACINTOUCH Issues & Trends You've got a mainframe on your desk, a friendly, easy-to-use, powerful computer that can do more for you personally than one of those hundred-million-dollar, air-conditioned, megawatt monsters in the MIS...

Mac-based programs developed to teach basic programming.
July 5, 1988... Mac-based programs developed to teach basic programming PITTSBURGH -- Carnegie Mellon University, which recently added the Mac II to its list of recommended workdstations and agreed with Apple to port Mach, CMU's advanced operating system, has...

SilverScreen stacks catalogs videotapes. (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... SilverScreen stack catalogs videotapes FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- Movie buffs and videocassette collectors now can use Hyper-Card to keep track of their tapes. SilverScreen, a stack designed by Ilene Baranowitz and soon to be published by HyperPress...

Beyond upgrades MenuFonts 2 INIT file. (Beyond Inc.)
July 5, 1988... Beyond upgrades MenuFonts 2 INIT file TUCSON, Ariz. -- A new version of Menu-Fonts 2, an INIT file that replaces the standard pull-down Font menu with a custom menu displaying font names in their own fonts, has been released by Beyond Inc. ...

Database front end runs over AppleTalk. (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... Database front end runs over AppleTalk HOUSTON -- With a little help from its users, Products Diversified Inc.'s Mac/FREEFORM, a front end for dedicated Britton-Lee relational-database servers, can now run over AppleTalk and Ethernet networks....

Nuvotech unveils new TurboNet connector. (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... Nuvotech unveils new TurboNet connector SAUSALITO, Calif. -- Nuvotech Inc. recently unveiled TurboNet ST, the latest addition to its TurboNet line of AppleTalk connectors. The $59.95 box and wiring is the only self-terminating AppleTalk...

RING accelerates PostScript processing speed for newspapers. (RING Computers Inc.'s MetroScriptor 8033 Raster Image Processor) (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... RING accelerates PostScript processing speed for newspapers SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Hoping to accelerate the acceptance of PostScript in the newspaper business by increasing the processing speed of the sometimes sluggish page-description language,...

Giffer lets Mac users import GIF images from other computers.
July 5, 1988... Giffer lets Mac users import GIF images from other computers Boston -- In an effort to open the channels among different hardware platforms, one Mac developer has created a utility program that lets users exchange color, black-and-white and...

Mac interface for Unda system. (Unda Inc.'s Color Design and Production System) (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... Mac interface for Unda system NEW YORK -- Unda Inc. closed another link in the chain between the Macintosh and high-end pre-press production systems with its announcement last month of a Mac interface to its color pre-press system. The...

Brainpower's ArchiText to ship. (text retrieval and management program) (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... Brainpower's ArchiText to ship CALABASAS, Calif. -- Brainpower Inc. will ship a text retrieval and management program tha t incorporates the fundamental concepts of hypertext, according to company President Sherwin Steffin. ArchiText,...

4D application helps candidates track voters. (Constituent Manager data base management system from Peripheral Visions)
July 5, 1988... 4D application helps candidates track voters PORTLAND, Maine -- If 30-year-old female hunters are the swing vote in Maine's Kennebec Valley elections this November, then Christine Burke has a leg up on her competition. Burke, who is this...

Kinetics cuts prices. (on Ethernet cards for the Macintosh II and SE)
July 5, 1988... Kinetics cuts prices WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- Kinetics Inc. last week announced that it is dropping the price of its Ethernet cards for the Mac II and SE to $695 from $795, effectively July 5. Kinetics President Timothy McCreery attributed the...

AGA plans Mac version of erasable optical disk drive. (Advanced Graphic Applications Inc.'s Discus Rewritable) (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... AGA plans Mac version of erasable optical disk drive NEW YORK -- At PC Expo two weeks ago, Advanced Graphic Applications announced its Discus Rewritable optical disk drive for MS-DOS systems. But unbeknownst to the largely IBM-oriented crowd,...

Pacer, Alisa go another round in Mac-Vax connectivity contest. (Pacer Software Inc.'s PacerLink 5.0, Alisa Systems Inc.'s AlisaShare) (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... Pacer, Alisa go another round in Mac-VAX connectivity contest LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Two rival companies specializing in Macintosh-to-VAX connectivity made separate announcements last week in their latest round of one-upsmanship. While Pacer...

Lulevitch: not convinced yet. (free-lance graphic artist Tom Lulevitch and the Apple Macintosh) (interview)
July 5, 1988... Lulevitch: Not convinced yet GA: Why did you buy a computer? TL: It was just an irresistable urge to find out what was going on. I'm always experimenting with techniques and mediums; I can't resist anything that's creative stimulant. And...

Many formats, little compatibility. (graphics file formats for Apple Macintosh) (column)
July 5, 1988... Many formats, little compatibility I've got a problem with graphic file formats. You know them, those short little words or acronyms that keep popping up like mushrooms after rain: TIFF, RIFF, EPSF, PICT, PICT2, Paint, Draw. You save art or...

Claris buys IIGS programs; new version of AppleWorks due in the fall. (Purchase of StyleWare Inc.) (AppleWorks GS)
July 5, 1988... Claris buys IIGS programs MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Moving to beef up its software offerings for the Apple II family, Claris Corp. announced last week it has acquired Style Ware Inc., a privately held Houston-based company that develops software...

SuperMac could be on its own; Edelman, venture capitalists join in buyout. (SuperMac Technology) (Steve Edelman)
July 5, 1988... SuperMac could be on its own MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- The prolonged drama surrounding SuperMac Technology moved close to a denouement last week with the signing of an agreement that may make the peripheral and software vendor once again a...

Zoomracks owner asserts right to rack metaphor. (QuickView Systems)
July 5, 1988... Zoomracks owner asserts right to rack metaphor LOS ALTOS, Calif. -- Quickview Systems President Paul Heckel is offering HyperCard developers a license to his patented user interface structure and is trying to make sure that no one else uses his...

StyleWare programs have Macintosh feel. (AppleWorks GS from recent Apple Computer acquisition StyleWare Inc.) (product announcement)
July 5, 1988... Style Ware programs have Macintosh feel MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- With its acquisition of StyleWare Inc., Claris Corp. bought two hot new pieces of Apple IIGS software, one of which may eventually find its way into the Mac Market. What will...

MacroMind recycles GraphicWorks.
July 5, 1988... MacroMind recycles Graphic Works CHICAGO -- MacroMind Inc. last week regained rights to the source code of its GraphicWorks paint program and plans to revise the program as a paint/presentation package for release in January 1989. Marc...

Blyth moves development to England. (Blyth Software Inc.)
July 5, 1988... Blyth moves development to England FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- As part of a cost-cutting program following a weak showing in its last fiscal year, Blyth Software, publisher of the Omnis 3 Plus database package, has decided to move its development...

Softsel focuses on Mac connectivity market. (Softsel Computer Products Inc.)
July 5, 1988... Softsel focuses on Mac connectivity market INGLEWOOD, Calif. --Selling Macintosh connectivity products has become something of an obsession at Softsel Computer Products Inc. In the course of the past four months, the Inglewood, Calif.,...

DayStar to manufacture Novy accelerator. (DayStar Digital Inc., Novy Systems' Mac20MX accelerator board for the Macintosh)
July 5, 1988... DayStar to manufacture Novy accelerator FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. -- Novy Systems, maker of the Mac20MX accelerator board, has signed a joint agreement with DayStar Digital Inc., allowing DayStar to take over the manufacture and marketing of the Novy...

Apple up, tech indexes lag. (Apple Computer Inc. stock)
July 5, 1988... Apple up, tech indexes lag Although the market continues to inch upward from last fall's valleys, the summer doldrums are setting in, casting a spell of listlessness on Wall Street and much of the technology sector. For the two-week period...

Quality of output drives printer market. (Apple Macintosh printer market) (MarketWEEK) (column)
July 5, 1988... Quality of output drives printer market With more and more businesses demanding good-looking text and graphics from their computers, the sectors of the U.S. personal-computer printer market growing fastest are those that promise the...

Calendar.
July 5, 1988... CALENDAR July 11-12 Computer-Assisted Software Engineering (San Francisco) The seminar examines CASE tools for analysis and design, the newest development in systems delivery, and focuses specifically on the impact of...

Mac's factor in the equation. (Stephen Wolfram's Mathematica mathematics software for the Macintosh) (editorial)
July 5, 1988... Mac's factor in the equation Once in a while some concept or product comes along that forces us to rethink our surroundings. Stephen Wolfram may have achieved that kind of paradigm shift with his new Mathematica program. Why should the...

It's like 'The invasion of the body snatchers.' (human factors in use of electronic mail systems in the office) (column)
July 5, 1988... It's like 'The invasion of the body snatchers' Do you remember the movie "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers?" The plot centers around alien beings coming to San Francisco in oversized coconut-like pods and stealing human minds. Eventually, all...

The real revolution: a new class of worker. (image of Macintosh users in corporations) (column)
July 5, 1988... The real revolution: A new class of worker The latest acronym used in the upper echelons of corporate MIS departments is CIO, for chief information officer. The term is laden with meaning because it represents the computer generation's quest for...

To the editor. (letter to the editor)
July 5, 1988... TO THE EDITOR I read David Sternlight's May 10 review of Layered's Insight product with great interest and would like to thank him for his recommendations. I disagree, however, with Sternlight's comparison of Layered's Insight Expert series...

Novell networks inspire corporate confidence. (Netview for the Macintosh) (The Long View) (column)
July 5, 1988... Novell networks inspire corporate confidence Novell, which dominates the market for IBM-compatible local-area networks, just tore down its "No Macs Allowed" sign. At a June 7 ceremony, the company announced NetWare for the Macintosh. Novell...

Granting non-profits a helping hand. (Apple Macintosh SE and HyperCard grants to non-profit organizations)
July 5, 1988... GRANTING NON-PROFITS A HELPING HAND CUPERTINO, Calif. -- In Helena, Mont., the Alternative Energy Resources Organization uses HyperCard to compile results from its survey of sustainable agriculture methods used in seven western states and two...

Volunteer mentors come to the rescue. (CompuMentor Project)
July 5, 1988... Volunteer Mentors Come to the Rescue SAN FRANCISCO--One Tuesday in May, the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives faced a frustrating problem. Working under a tight deadline, NCIA, a San Francisco non-profit organization that promotes...

Outrigger Hotel chain catches the Mac wave. (Apple Macintosh)
July 5, 1988... OUTRIGGER HOTEL CHAIN CATCHES THE MAC WAVE Dear Boss, I know this story is late, but what am I supposed to do with all this sun and sand, warm ocean water and equally warm people here in Honolulu? I think I've been afflicted by what the...

Typecasting for the desktop. (contains related article on keeping up with software revisions)
July 5, 1988... TYPECASTING FOR THE DESKTOP If Johann Gutenberg were alive today, he'd be amazed by the advances in typography since the 15th century, such as phototypesetting instead of handset type. However, printing is still very much grounded in the metal...

Seeing the whole picture; the benefits of large-screen monitors.
July 5, 1988... SEEING THE WHOLE PICTURE For Robert Bailey, president of Robert Bailey Design Inc. of Portland, Ore., when a good thing gets better, it's hard to imagine going back to just a good thing. When Bailey began using MAcs in his design and desktop...

Typography terms explained.
July 5, 1988... Typography terms explained Developed for hot-metal art, many of the terms used to communicate specialized typographical functions may be foreign or downright misleading to the uninitiated. But once understood, they are intriguing throwbacks to a...

Product info.
July 5, 1988... PRODUCT INFO Access Technology Inc. Trapeze 2.0: $295 200G Heritage Harbor Monterey, Calif. 93940 (800) 367-4334 Aldus Corp. PageMaker 3.0: $595 411 First Ave. S. Seattle, Wash. 98104 (206) 622-5500 Ashton-Tate Corp....

Product info.
July 5, 1988... PRODUCT INFO Adobe System Inc. Illustrator 1.7: $495 1585 Charleston Road Mountain View, Calif. 94039 (415) 961-4400 Aldus Corp. PageMaker 3.0: $595 411 First Ave. S. Seattle, Wash. 98104 (206) 622-5500 Apple...

A users guide to decoding monitor specification sheets.
July 5, 1988... A users guide to decoding monitor specification sheets While most experts advise viewing and comparing a number of monitors before purchasing one, reading the product's specification sheets can be a good first step. Unfortunately, spec-sheet...

Rumors. (column)
July 5, 1988... RUMORS The reports of the demise of Modern Jazz may indeed have been premature, if not exaggerated. Lotus is talking to at least two potential purchasers about the rights to the program, which one beta tester judged to be within one man-year of...

Behind the screens: how monitors work.
July 5, 1988... Behind the screens: How monitors work Monitors, also called CRTs (cathode-ray tubes) or video-display terminals (VDTs), work according to a principle called raster graphics. A vacuum is created by removing the air from the tube. An electronc...

Stepping outside the monitor's limitations.
July 5, 1988... Stepping outside the monitor's limitations If you are doing desktop publishing and you can't afford a large screen, Stepping Out, a software package from Berkeley System Design Inc. in Berkeley, Calif., might provide a reasonable alternative....

Movie making, Mac style. (contains related articles on Clip Sounds and VideoWorks Interactive) (evaluation)
July 5, 1988... Movie making, Mac style While it isn't likely that we'll be seeing any feature-length Video Works movies in the near future, more than a few companies have opted to use the very theatrical approach to business presentation that VideoWorks II...

PowerDraw 2.0 speeds up the CAD process. (computer-aided design) (evaluation)
July 5, 1988... PowerDraw 2.0 speeds up the CAD process As the Macintosh continues to make inroads into engineering companies, more CAD programs are being developed to take advantage of this growing market. Very few of these applications strictly follow the...

A VideoWorks-HyperCard connection. (evaluation)
July 5, 1988... A Video Works-HypeCard connection There are many things one wishes Hyper-Card could do that it doesn't. Animation falls into that category; so does color. And while we're at it, wouldn't it be nice to have a larger interactive area for those...

Warner combines digital audio, MIDI information.
July 5, 1988... Warner combines digital audio, MIDI information BURBANK, Calif. -- Music is the most inter-active of all art forms, and compact disc technology will soon take that interactivity to new levels. One of the quietest product demonstrations at NAMM,...

Apple scanner due with stack.
July 12, 1988... Apple scanner due with stack Atkinson furnishes gray-scale rendering software CUPERTINO, Calif. -- After 10 months of speculation, Apple will unveil its new 300-dpi flatbed scanner at the Boston Macworld Expo next month, along with a...

Color process package coming in fall. (PhotoMac, computer software from Avalon Development Corp) (product announcement)
July 12, 1988... Color process package coming in fall CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Macintosh will take a giant step into the realm of professional publishing when Avalon Development Corp. unveils its new 24-bit color image-processing and separation software package...

For Apple, love of HyperCard begins at home.
July 12, 1988... For Apple, love of HyperCard begins at home CUPERTINO, Calif. -- When Apple talks about using HyperCard in corporate MIS departments, it can now speak from experience. The company has had engineers in its Information Systems and Technology...

On the trail of Taiwanese clones. (Behind the News)
July 12, 1988... On the trail of Taiwanese clones TAIPEI, Taiwan -- On the Chain Kuo South Road stands a concrete bunker, each side a city block long, elevated one story off the ground and crammed with computer stores, hardware shops and electronic surplus...

PixelPaint 2.0 to add color TIFF support. (SuperMac Software; Tag Image File Format)
July 12, 1988... PixelPaint 2.0 to add color TIFF support MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Although it has yet to ship PixelPaint 1.1, SuperMac Software is readying Version 2.0, described by sources as a major improvement to the color paint program, for release later...

Low-priced film recorder readied. (American Liquid Light Inc) (product announcement)
July 12, 1988... Low-priced film recorder readied TORRANCE, Calif. -- American Liquid Light Inc. hopes to project itself into the growing desktop presentation market next month when it releases the lowest-priced film recorder yet announced for the Mac. The...

HyperCard upgrade for international users. (Late News) (product announcement)
July 12, 1988... LATE NEWS HyperCard upgrade for international users CUPERTINO, Calif. -- A new version of HyperCard is being prepared for release in August, but it will be a minor upgrade aimed at international users, not the fabled Version 2.0. ...

Mac interface for Pixar II graphics system. (Late News) (product announcement)
July 12, 1988... Mac interface for Pixar II graphics system SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- Pixar will take the Mac II to a new plateau as a graphics workstation on July 19 when it announces a Mac interface for its Pixar II high-performance graphics system. The NuBus...

Letraset USA to market ReadySetShow. (Late News) (product announcement)
July 12, 1988... Letraset USA to market ReadySetShow PARAMUS, N.J. -- Worldwide marketing rights to Manhattan Graphics' ReadySetShow presentation package have been signed over to Letraset USA, a division of Esselte Pendaflex Corp. The ReadySetShow program,...

IBM tells RISC developers to mind its patents. (reduced instruction set computer)
July 12, 1988... IBM tells RISC developers to mind its patents ARMONK, N.Y. -- Following IBM's surprise offensive late last month against possible infringers on its RISC patents, Sun, Apollo, Motorola and possibly even Apple may be hard at work reviewing RISC...

Virus-detecting lab makes house calls. (InterPath Mobile Lab, a mobile electronic laboratory may soon get a Mac)
July 12, 1988... Virus-detecting lab makes house calls Mobile electronic laboratory may soon get a Mac SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- A communications-and computer-security company called InterPath has designed a mobile electronic laboratory that will pay house...

Genicom to release QuickDraw-driven laser printer. (ACEwriter, from Genicon Corp) (product announcement)
July 12, 1988... Genicom to release QuickDraw-driven laser printer CALABASAS, Calif. -- Betting that Apple will drastically improve QuickDraw soon and that a large untapped market exists between dot-matrix and PostScript laser printers, Genicom Corp. is readying...

Micropro's Zeus word processor delayed until winter.
July 12, 1988... Micropro's Zeus word processor delayed until winter SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- It'll be a cold day in winter before Macintosh users get a glimpse of Zeus, the much-talked-about high-end word processing package from Micropro International Corp. ...

WORM products belie dire predictions. (write-once, read-many times) (product announcement)
July 12, 1988... WORM products belie dire predictions SAN FRANCISCO -- Despite predictions by some industry observers that WORM drive technology wouldn't long escape obsolescence, new WORM products continue to appear, and the price for at least one existing...

Aba to market two French paint programs. (Aba Software: GraphistPaint; GraphistPaint II)
July 12, 1988... Aba to market two French paint programs MALVERN, Pa. -- Aba Software has ventured abroad to find two new paint programs it hopes will take the Mac market by storm. The Malvern, Pa., company acquired marketing rights to GraphistPaint and...

RPX chips could speed PostScript interpreters. (Raster Printer Accelerator, very large scale integration chips) (product announcement)
July 12, 1988... RPX chips could speed PostScript interpreters MILPITAS, Calif. -- The silicon industry continued to offer hardware assists to slow-moving PostScript interpreters this week with the introduction of a family of coprocessors that one company...

GCC ships PostScript printer. (General Computer Corp) (product announcement)
July 12, 1988... GCC Ships PostScript printer WALTHAM, Mass. -- Putting the final stone in its sling for its campaign against Apple's LaserWriter II series, General Computer Corp. last week shipped its new PostScript-equipped Business LaserPrinter. The...