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...anticipation of this era, software companies are teaming up fast. In the past few weeks, Novell, a network-software leader, has announced plans to buy WordPerfect, a top maker of word-processing software; Adobe and Aldus, both publishing software firms, are hooking up, as are Electronic Arts and Broderbund, makers of games and educational software. Such mergers, of course, are typical of the consolidation going on in the $7.3 billion computer- software industry, where companies are attempting to strengthen their competitive positions for the battles ahead. But even in this context, Gates' sweeping ambition stands out. "The leadership of Microsoft...
...term DTP was coined by Paul Brainerd, president and founder of the Aldus Corporation, maker of Aldus PageMaker, the first commercially successful DTP software package...
Originally introduced in 1985 for the Apple Mackintosh computer, Aldus, based in Seattle, Wash., shipped a DOS version a year later and has relased versions for other computer systems. It became successful for several reasons...
...There has always been forgery," says Paul Brainerd, president of the Seattle software firm Aldus Corp. and the man who coined the term desktop publishing. "We have just lowered the cost of entry...
...1980s was based largely on the proliferation of such breakthrough products as the Apple II personal computer (1977); WordStar, the wordprocessing program (1979); VisiCalc, an electronic accounting ledger or spreadsheet (1979); the IBM PC (1981); Apple's Macintosh, with its advanced graphics capability (1984); and desktop- publishing gear like Aldus PageMaker...