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From: knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group)
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Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 6 Nov 90 23:24:54 GMT
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jtgorman@cs.arizone.edu (Quaestor) writes:
>Sure, the NeXt printer has better resolution than Macs and it's cheaper,
>but the price difference is not because NeXT thinks everyone should have
>a laser printer, but because it is a dumb printer.  It relies on the
>PostScript interpreter in the NeXt computer...

Perhaps Apple should think about putting a PostScript interpreter into their
computer so Mac laser printers wouldn't be so expensive.  This is all the
more reason to buy a NeXT.

>Also, the new Personal LaserWriter NT is not that more expensive than a that
>price for the NeXT printer.

However, it ain't a PostScript printer and you can't do with it what you could
do with a NeXT/NeXT laser printer combo.