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From: rca@brunix (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Will the Next sell?
Keywords: color RAM disk backup software exchange
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Date: 1 Dec 89 04:58:55 GMT
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> Actually, if Next would make
>external drives in a cube chassis, or something that looked like
>a cube, or if they made the chassis (just the magnesium case, not
>the power supply, drives, board, etc) available to outside drive
>manufacturers, I'd be happy.  Then I could stack the cubes, or,
>if I had eight cubes, build them into a *big* cube :).

Neat idea, they really should do it. Now, do we want cubes of
different sizes to build some kind of artsy arrangement, or
should they be all the same size? :)

>In fact, 400 dpi from the Next printer isn't really up to snuff, but
>I can't get a Next-compatible 600 dpi printer (that I know of anyway)
>and be able to take advantage of Display PostScript.

As far as I know ANY postscript printer should be compatible
with the NeXT computer. As I see it, the NeXT printer is a nice
printer as a personal printer or for a small net, if you dedicate
one cube as print server.
The thing is, that for printing you can't use the NeXT extensions
to postscript anyway :(
e.g. compositing is not possible on the printer. The official
reason is that it depends too much on the resolution and other
kind of data of the printer to be easily emulated in standard
postscript. I would suggest, that NeXT use a printer database
for this purpose. Also some other things a bad about compositing:
compositing allowas no rotating etc. of the source. The reason
here is speed. But I'd rather see a flag to switch between speed
and all logical options postscript usually provides. In a few
years, speed hopefully is no longer the problem....

Ronald
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