'PostScript' prints anything: a case history
Tekla S. Perry · IEEE Spectrum · 1988
The development history of the page description language PostScript is presented. Several key problems in the development are described: laser printer, a harbor simulation that drove the language-to-be toward its object orientation, font algorithm creation, and image reduction and analysis. Key technical developments that aided the establishment of PostScript are also mentioned; these include the Apple Macintosh microcomputer and its need for bit-mapped graphics printing, cheap laser printers, and cost declines in memory.>