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PostScript 1.0 – A Code Study
® 1.0 - A Code Study In December 2022, Adobe, through the Computer History Museum (CHM), released the source code for PostScript®, version 1.0. PostScript is one of the foundational technologies of the desktop publishing revolution of the early 1980s, along with laser printers, the graphical user interface of the Apple Macintosh, and Aldus PageMaker.
In (Warnock and Geschke 2019)’s description of the founding of Adobe, the team listing includes Tom Boynton and Dan Putnam (both described as electronic engineers), Doug Brotz, and Bill Paxton, but drops Shore. Mendelson also considered the binary format a better fit for the Xerox Network Systems environment and, indeed, Interpress supported fetching resources remotely via XNS paths, while PostScript required users to place any external files into the printer’s local filesystem (if it existed). DVI shares similar advantages as the later developed PDF standard in that, while the format programatically builds a page, the language is not Turing-complete and thus can be interpreted with predictable performance, capacity requirements, and assurance that processing will terminate.
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