On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 22:44:13 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

The Mac did not "spawn" an industry that predated its existence.

publishing existed prior to the mac, but not desktop publishing, which
is what the mac spawned.

Quite wrong as I have already told you.

not wrong, and your link doesn't say what you think it does.

See
Message-ID: in which I
cite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_publishing from which I
quoted:

"Desktop publishing was first developed at Xerox PARC in the
1970s.[1][2] A contradictory claim states that desktop publishing
began in 1983 with a program developed by James Davise at a community
newspaper in Philadelphia.[3] The program Type Processor One ran on a
PC using a graphics card for a WYSIWYG display and was offered
commercially by Best info in 1984.[4] (Desktop typesetting with only
limited page makeup facilities had arrived in 1978Â*9 with the
introduction of TeX, and was extended in the early 1980s by LaTeX.)
The DTP market exploded in 1985 with the introduction in January of
the Apple LaserWriter printer, and later in July with the introduction
of PageMaker software from Aldus, which rapidly became the DTP
industry standard software. Later on, PageMaker overtook Microsoft
Word in professional DTP in 1985. The term "desktop publishing" is
attributed to Aldus founder Paul Brainerd,[5] who sought a marketing
catch-phrase to describe the small size and relative affordability of
this suite of products, in contrast to the expensive commercial
phototypesetting equipment of the day."

note this part:
The DTP market exploded in 1985 with the introduction in January of
the Apple LaserWriter printer, and later in July with the introduction
of PageMaker software from Aldus, which rapidly became the DTP
industry standard software.

guess what that means.

Later on, PageMaker overtook Microsoft
Word in professional DTP in 1985. The term "desktop publishing" is
attributed to Aldus founder Paul Brainerd,[5] who sought a marketing

also guess what that means.

It means that desktop publishing was already in existence when the
laserwriter arrived. i.e. the Mac cannot have spawned that which was
already in existence.

hint: the mac spawned the desktop publishing industry.

here's mo
https://www.lifewire.com/when-was-desktop-publishing-invented-1073863
4. 1985 - Aldus develops PageMaker for the Mac, the first "desktop
publishing" application.
5. 1985 - Apple produces the LaserWriter, the first desktop laser
printer to contain PostScript.

http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Software/Pagemaker.html
PageMaker not only made desktop publishing possible, it spawned
entire cottage industries for clip art, fonts, service bureau output
and scanning, and specialty products for laser printing such as foil
overlays.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...olumn-desktop-
publishing/23126873/
The LaserWriter was the first desktop printer to incorporate Adobe's
PostScript, a page description language that contained scalable
typefaces and supported smoothly drawn graphics. The same file
created on a Macintosh computer and proofed on a LaserWriter could
be output to a Linotronic 300 phototypesetter at 2,540 dpi, which was
commercial quality.
...
As the LaserWriter was launched, the term "desktop publishing"
entered the vernacular. One way to track usage is to search for a
phrase in Google Books Ngram Viewer, which graphs the number of
mentions in books by year. Starting in the mid-1980s occurrences of
"desktop publishing" tracked steeply upward, peaking in 1992, then
settling into a gentle downward slope into the new millennium.
...
Tony Bove, an early expert about desktop publishing and a book
author, says "the LaserWriter put me in business as a magazine and
newsletter publisher for a niche market and spawned hundreds of
thousands of niche-market publications and 'zines. The ability to
create page layouts made possible graphical novels and comics for
international readers. The page layout programs laid the foundation
for the webpages we take for granted today."

http://www.digibarn.com/stories/mac20/
On January 24, 1984 the personal computing movement was changed
forever with the Superbowl launch of Apple's Macintosh computer.
While the graphical user interface, mouse, and bitmapped
display+printing had been around for more than a decade, the Mac
represented the first combining of these key innovations into a
beautifully crafted package that an ordinary consumer could pick up
and use in daily life. The Mac went on to spawn several revolutions
including the "Desktop Publishing" phenomenon of the 80s...

Reply if you like. I am ignoring you on this subject from now on.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens