Description
Session 8 of the Desktop Publishing Pioneer Meeting provides details about the company Atex. As a prehistory to the desktop publishing era, Atex cofounder Richard Ying explains the company’s early business arrangement with U.S. News and World Report, the Atex management style, and why the founders decided to sell to Eastman Kodak in 1980. Donald Knuth also talks about funding support for this research work at Stanford University developing TeX for mathematical and scientific formatting. Lastly, the workshop participants discuss various TeX spin-off businesses and the impact of TeX on scientific publishing.
Date
2017-05-23
Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, CA
Extent
16 p.
Format
PDF
Category
Transcription
Subject
Atex; Compugraphic; Desktop publishing; Digital typesetting; Drane, Douglas; PDP-11; TeX
Collection Title
Desktop Publishing Pioneer Meeting
Credit
Computer History Museum
