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From: mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Michael Gschwind)
Subject: Re: How to vote on POSIX Printing
In-Reply-To: duke@osf.org's message of Mon, 1 Mar 1993 18: 40:45 GMT
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 11:25:46 GMT
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In article <DUKE.93Mar1134042@portal.osf.org> duke@osf.org (Duke Robillard) writes:
[Palladium]
That's true, it's very print specific. That's because it's an implementation
of the ISO Print Standard.
EEEEEEK! That means it's virtually unusable. And after address
translation, it's also REALLY (physically) unusable!
Anything that has the letters ISO on it should be looked at twice
before used. ISO standards have a tendency to be elborated not by the
people who know most but by those who TALK most! (Think about the OSI
standard!)
ISO has done good work, but in computer science they are not at there
best. If you guys in the US really want to adopt an ISO standard,
adopt the SI international metric standard (which is an example of an
excellent ISO standard - as even the Brits have conceded after years
and years of resistance!)
Cheers,
mike
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