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                    Adobe Co-Founder John Warnock Dead at 82

   Adam Engst

   [1]Adobe writes:

     It is with profound sadness that Adobe shares the passing of the
     company's beloved co-founder Dr. John Warnock. Dr. Warnock passed
     away on Saturday surrounded by his family.

   With the death of [2]John Warnock, we've lost another titan of the tech
   world. He co-founded Adobe Systems in 1982 with [3]Chuck Geschke, who
   died several years ago (see '[4]Adobe Co-Founder Charles Geschke Dead
   at 81,' 19 April 2021). In the late 1970s, they developed the graphics
   language InterPress at Xerox PARC, but when Xerox failed to
   commercialize it, they left to start Adobe. There they developed the
   PostScript page description language that underpinned Apple's
   groundbreaking LaserWriter, and the combination sparked the desktop
   publishing revolution. Warnock is also credited with inventing Adobe
   Illustrator to create graphics in PostScript without programming. The
   impact of Warnock's and Geschke's work is incalculable'[5]this video
   about the history of Illustrator gives a sense of just how difficult
   graphic design was before tools like PostScript and Illustrator came
   onto the scene.

   IFRAME: [6]https://www.youtube.com/embed/1gaCKT_Ncdk?feature=oembed


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References

   1. https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/Adobe-Co-Founder-Dr.-John-Warnock-Passes-at-82/default.aspx
   2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warnock
   3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Geschke
   4. https://tidbits.com/2021/04/19/adobe-co-founder-charles-geschke-dead-at-81/
   5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gaCKT_Ncdk
   6. https://www.youtube.com/embed/1gaCKT_Ncdk?feature=oembed
   7. https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/Adobe-Co-Founder-Dr.-John-Warnock-Passes-at-82/default.aspx

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