Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!chinacat!woody
From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: new NeXTs as PostScript engines?
Summary: Glenn does.
Message-ID: <1600@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Date: 30 Sep 90 01:54:07 GMT
References: <1990Sep28.213733.26340@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
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> >advantage), but needs a NeXT workstation to drive it. Stanford price for a
> >NeXT printer: $1229. Total for printer plus minimum NeXT: $4382. Now, this
> >is $562 more than the Apple printer, but the LaserWriter doesn't have a
> >nice screen to preview your PostScript, or a 105M hard disk. Also, it's

That is a *very* interesting thought.  Quite valid also.  Unfortunatly, it
appears that those prices are for schools mere mortals in the real world
might have quite a bit more money to lay out, if you can even get ahold
of one, but I think that If I were in the market for such, I would certianly
give this quite a bit of consideration.  Unfortunatly, the only NeXT station
that I have had a chance to see, was one of the early ones, and I could
accomplish more faster with a pencil and paper ;^)  Even Windows on an
8086 seemed faster.  That undoubtably has changed now, with faster operating
systems, and the abandonment of the SLOWWWW optical disk (quite an inovation
, but then that is what Steve specializes in 8}  ).

At any rate, I believe that GLENN has one such beast.  Perhaps he can
post some benchmark stuff.  I happen to like to have the printer scale
each of the 35 faces at about 20 points, and render all uppercase, lowercase
and numbers.  This takes about 30 min on an older laserwriter.


> So, if anyone has access to an NTX and one of the new NeXTs, a benchmark would
> be really interesting. I don't have any suitable benchmarks, (or for that
Cheers
Woody