ImageMagick was developed by John Cristy at DuPont in 1987 and release in 1990. Your statement is not only false, even it it wasn't, mentioning Linux in relation to ImageMagick is a non-sequitor. Maybe you should try other things.
To be quite clear, in the context of ImageMagick, claiming early Linux image processing with ImageMagick is irrelevant, also, not exactly true. What much does alleged Linux inclusion of any application (/usr/local/*) whatsoever have to do with that application? You're apparently promoting Linux by claiming it's a feat few had considered, or otherwise saying "I am cool," which is fine I guess and I don't doubt it, but also irrelevant.
As I pointed out, ImageMagick was developed in 1987, and I should have gone on to specify that most digital image manipulation techniques were developed in the 1960's. So assuming your Yggdrasil installation was processing images with it in early 1993, that it was "before most had considered it" is hardly knowable. I'm reading it similarly to saying your Chevy wipers were wiping your windshield before most had considered it when modern wipers were invented 50 years ago and all the techniques for doing so were worked out around the turn of the century. Chevy's are great and all, but there are other things.
> claiming early Linux image processing with ImageMagick is irrelevant
It is at relevant, because this is about why imageMagick has such prime namespace on linux.
I don't have any idea why you are going in these seeming random directions, I'm not promoting linux, or whatever else your going on about.
This is my original statement
> Image magick has been around for a pretty long time, and was doing image processing on linux before most had considered it.
Surely we can both agree part below is a fair and accurate statement
> Image magick has been around for a pretty long time
This next part, is the part that seemingly needs clarification
> and was doing image processing on linux before most had considered it.
When imagemagick was added to linux in the mid 90s (near ImageMagick 4) not a lot of people were doing image processing in the OS. and being that it was the first mature image processor added to the distro, it is why it has the namespaces it does.
I'm not sure how you are either not getting that clarifier of "on linux" and seem to be trying to debate something about the history of image processing itself?
To be very clear, and to hopefully prevent this continued necro'ing of this post, I was not, talking about this history of image processing, but the specific linux namespace that imagemagick has, and why it has it.
Any other points of debate about this are irrelevant.
Thank you for explaining. I think I see now your observation is that ImageMagick was doing image processing on Linux before most had considered doing image processing on Linux. If so, then I am forced to concede this point. Although I think it is still fair to say, with a market share even now only barely breaching 2%, that most, in fact nearly all, have not considered doing anything at all on Linux since inception and likely not even five or ten years from now. This means those intrepid Linux+ImageMagick users processing images in the mid-1990's are that much more notable as those lucky few doing stuff with Linux before most had considered it, but also that those getting directory listings in Linux right this moment are also somewhat intrepid because most, maybe as much as 97.1%, had never considered even doing anything like that on Linux. I wonder what else most have not even considered doing on Linux. I expect nearly everything.
