Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

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shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

>Rick Hatton (hattonr@aug.com) wrote:
>
>: The company DID survive off of the Apple IIe, IIc and IIgs for a long
>: while. Revenue form those sources was used to develop the Mac and not
>: the II. The IIs coould drive a Lasewriter, but Apple was publicly
>: denying it. Jobs wanted the Mac to survive and the II to die. He never
>
>I'll need to see book, chapter, and verse on that. Apple IIs didn't support
>Laserwriters in the normal way until the IIgs and workstation card came out.
>There were Don Lancaster types putting hacks together to make 'em work
>before that, but do you expect Apple to officially support such a thing?

What are "Don Lancaster types putting hacks"?

You know as well as I do that Postscript is Postscript is Postscript. Don
simply used AppleWriter's extended capabilities to directly download
Postscript code to the LaserWriter.

Apple knew that the A2 could do this simple task, but they denied it.
They owned AppleWorks and AppleWriter, so no one could change what
those programs could do out of the box but Apple.

It would not have been hard for Apple to have added Postscript support
to AppleWorks and AppleWriter.  Publish-It! is an 8-bit program that
prints beautiful LaserWriter Postscript graphics and text using just the
Super Serial Card and LaserWriter.  It proves that workstation cards and
the GS are not needed.  Even after BOTH Publish-It! and Springboard
Publisher came out, both supporting graphics and text Postscript to
LaserWriters, Apple was still officially silent about the A2's ability to use
LaserWriters.  Publish-It! and Springboard Publisher are not hacks now
are they?  BOTH these programs used standard Serial with the LW.