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Old 10-07-2021, 12:12 PM
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Charles Geschke, Adobe cofounder, co-inventor of PostScript & PDF, dies at 81

Charles Geschke, who along with John Warnock, founded Adobe and
created the PostScript page description language as their first product,
has died at age 81.

If you have ever opened or created a PDF document, you have used something that Geschke co-created.

Originally at Xerox PARC, he and Warnock developed Interpress, a page-description
language that could be used to control the company’s laser printers.
Unable to convince Xerox management of the commercial value of
Interpress, the two left the company to start Adobe.

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Originally Posted by Charles Geschke
The most critical piece of philosophy in a high technology company is to tell every engineer and every manager to hire people smarter than you are, because it is a much larger population from which to choose
Obituary :-
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-instit...hke-dies-at-81

4m47s video on Geschke and Warnock at Xerox PARC, founding Adobe,
the invention of PostScript, meeting with Steve Jobs and newly
formed Apple as first customer and the creation of PDF :-
https://youtu.be/AIojbRw2d5U
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that quote is gold.
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