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From: David Mertz, Ph.D. <mer...@gnosis.cx>
Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:22:39 -0400
|David Mertz, Ph.D. <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:
|>As far as I know, every OS, since maybe 1985, has had drivers for
|>postscript printing.  Almost all the applications that do not use OS

claird at starbase.neosoft.com (Cameron Laird) wrote previously:
|Well, wasn't Windows itself holding out against PS for a long time?
|OK, I'm not motivated enough to research this myself just now ...

My recollection is that early Windows versions Windows/286, Win3.0, etc.
indeed had rather poor or non-existent standard postscript support.  But
even back around 1990, you could easily enough obtain Windows PS drivers
from the makers of PS printers.  At least as early as 1991, I was using
PS drivers on Windows, then using a commercial postscript-interpreter
program called "GoScript" (before Ghostscript was around) to send the
output to dot-matrix printers.

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