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vmisev said:
Do you maybe remember brand of plateseseters that Sun was running? That might help me with the search.

As for Kodak, I used only Preps as standalone app but I liked it far more than Signa Station. Although, as quality of output on film/plates goes, no RIP matches Heidelberg Delta Towers, their screening algos are superb (as much as I don't like one-vendor closed workflows, I have to give them credit for that)
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No, I don't even remember what the platesetters were. For both the XMF and Prinergy workflows, I used Fuji's Javelin platesetters, which were very nice. There was a Creo platesetter in there somewhere, too, and an Agfa.

Yeah, Preps, used that for a long time! One of the nice things about XMF was doing the imposition directly in XMF, no Preps necessary, and it was much faster and easier.
 
JWJones said:
No, I don't even remember what the platesetters were. For both the XMF and Prinergy workflows, I used Fuji's Javelin platesetters, which were very nice. There was a Creo platesetter in there somewhere, too, and an Agfa.

Yeah, Preps, used that for a long time! One of the nice things about XMF was doing the imposition directly in XMF, no Preps necessary, and it was much faster and easier.
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That XMF feature sounds like really nice. When you mentioned CREO, Heidelberg also based their first few platesetter lines on their tech, they had joint venture and it wonders me that they "allowed" Kodak to buy them?

What I liked about Heidelberg Delta RIPs was ability to do to jobs for any *setter, not only attached one, save processed jobs in DeltaList files and take them somewhere else for imaging. We had a client who had Delta with some small capstan imagesetter and bringing DeltaList for output on our B1. He was my fav client, there was nothing to check, nothing to worry or think about, just DL file to Delta Tower press button or two and job done!

IDK how is today, never worked with their Prinect workflow, when that was out I already moved to my own small format digital print.
 
I did some support of Solaris/AIX in the past. I used to have Solaris as a storage server back at home.
I still have (60+) HP-UXes under my support including its virtualization (HPVM/vpars, now merged together).
 
CShell said:
Unix was the "gold standard" back in the day.
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It was not. The great advantage of Unix in today's world is that it happened to be there at the right time, when PCs became affordable. Although there were operating systems "early enough" with V10 UNIX and – later – Plan 9, which took something as modern as a graphical screen for granted and didn't just tack on support afterwards, by then Unix had already gained momentum. Unix was and is "good enough"; a more modern operating system would have to catch up on almost fifty years of software development to gain similar market power. And that will be difficult.

ralphbsz said:
VMS was and remains the best commercial operating system ever.
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And it is not a (version of) Unix, not even remotely similar to one.

vmisev said:
But CDE become Plasma
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Not quite! KDE, in its first version (as was Xfce, by the way), was still conceived as a quirky alternative to CDE, but the two software packages had and still have nothing else to do with each other. Only the name was deliberately chosen to be similar.
 
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