Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!bionet!ames!coherent!next!aozer From: aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Glimpse of a NEXT... Message-ID: <124@next.com> Date: 27 Mar 90 02:17:42 GMT References: <1990Mar18.001043.23028@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> <1949@clyde.concordia.ca> <1990Mar19.200738.31312@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Reply-To: Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer) Distribution: comp Organization: NeXT, Inc. Lines: 16 In article <1990Mar19.200738.31312@cunixf.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! True, it slows down your system some... However you should also consider that you're effectively executing the PostScript on a 25MHz 68030 system with virtual memory --- how many PostScript printers have that kind of power? The NeXT printer executes and prints large PostScript files many times faster than the average 68000 or 68020 PostScript laser printer. Ali