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From: kmc4@quads.uchicago.edu (keith matthew cardoza)
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Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 6 Nov 90 23:48:55 GMT
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In article <1990Nov6.232454.18981@agate.berkeley.edu> knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes:

>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.

One of the reasons that a postscript printer costs so damn much is because 
the liscensing fee for postscipt that you have to pay.  Putting a PS 
interpreter in a Mac doesn't solve the problem.  The cost to put a 
Motorola 680x0 in a Laserwriter doesn't affect the price nearly as much
as the liscensing fee.

>However, it [the Personal Laserwriter NT] ain't a PostScript printer
>and you can't do with it what you could 
>do with a NeXT/NeXT laser printer combo.  

You are absolutely, positively, unequivocably WRONG.
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             Keith Cardoza         E-mail : kmc4@midway.uchicago.edu
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