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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: 7 Nov 90 01:51:40 GMT
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I wrote:  
>>...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.

kmc4@quads.uchicago.edu (keith matthew cardoza) replies:
>You are absolutely, positively, unequivocably WRONG.

Care to elaborate?  The last time I checked the NT used QuickDraw rather
than PostScript as its imaging language.  This means you can't rotate or
scale Adobe fonts without butchering them.  

The NeXT laser printer is, for all intents and purposes, a PostScript printer.
The only difference is that the PostScript processor is on the main board of
the NeXT computer itself.  

Another question, so if what you say is true, why is Apple ripping off the
public by charging so much more for their printers that do have PostScript
on board?

It seems to me that "You are absolutely, positively, unequivocably WRONG.