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From: chrisg@microsoft.UUCP (Chris GUZAK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: PostScript vs TrueType?
Message-ID: <56147@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 90 20:59:15 GMT
References: <1100.26af57d3@waikato.ac.nz> <1990Jul26.135834.9874@tsa.co.uk>
Reply-To: chrisg@microsoft.UUCP (Chris GUZAK)
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In article <1990Jul26.135834.9874@tsa.co.uk> domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop) writes:
>Possibly talk of MIPs hints (pun intended) at Apple's and Microsoft's
>reason for going low-level.  Most of the installed base of Macs and PCs has
>little power to spare for working out how to respond to a hint: better and
>cheaper to tell the poor little machine exactly what to do -- even at the
>cost of future problems or sub-optimal performance.

ummm... my 20MHz 386 can churn out more mips that the 68k in my printer.
When it comes to putting power where it can be used, I'd rather pay
for it in my desktop machine (where it is much cheaper) than in my
printer.  I'd also like my font engine there as well, that way I get
nice stuff on the screen as well as on paper.

>Dominic Dunlop

Chris Guzak