Desktop Publishing Pioneer Meeting, day 2 session 8: Atex and TeX
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.
Item Details
- Date
- 2017-05-23 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102738495
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Credit line
- Computer History Museum
- Extent
- 16 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X8209.2017
- Subject
- PDP-11, Desktop Publishing, TeX
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- Desktop Publishing Pioneer meeting collection