Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1!jwwalden From: jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Darc Tangent) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Glimpse of a NEXT... Message-ID: <1164.26065e29@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> Date: 20 Mar 90 21:45:29 GMT References: <1990Mar18.001043.23028@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> <1949@clyde.concordia.ca> <1990Mar19.200738.31312@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Distribution: comp Lines: 33 In article <1990Mar19.200738.31312@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > The other important thing to note about the next is that it > doesn't come with a postscript laser, just a regular 400dpi laser. All > the postscript --> laser calculations are done internally. This leads > to incredible slowdowns. When I was printing a page (a ps doc) I had > to wait just to type into the unix CLI. The letter wouldn't appear > immediately! That is SLOW! > -- Ethan Well, it does lead to slowdowns when you print, but at least you aren't wasting enormous amounts of processing power and RAM in the printer (and the printer costs much less). Wouldn't appear immediately? On what laser printer do your pages appear immediately? They all have to do the Postscript calculations which still takes time (might be faster depending on what you're doing on the NeXT though). Of course, you could have the file server do all the printing which eliminates the slowdown for the individual users. > > Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu > -- [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] [] [] [] Darc Tangent d(arctan(u)) = du/(1+u^2) jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu [] [] [] [] "I am made from the dust of the stars, the oceans flow in my veins." [] [] - RUSH, Presto [] [] [] [] "Reading legal mush can turn your brain to guacamole!" - Amiga RKM [] [] "Objective truth is a social disease." - Nietzsche [] [] [] [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]