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From: lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 7 Nov 90 02:18:06 GMT
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In article <39262@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
|>In article <1990Nov6.232454.18981@agate.berkeley.edu> knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes:
|>
|>>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.  
|>
|>Ehhhhhhh.  WRONG answer.  The Personal LaserWriter NT IS a PS printer, and 
|>because it has its own CPU, I don't lose cycles waiting for my print job.


True, but the $3400, 15 MIP, 68040 NeXTStation has sooooooo many cycles
to give!  Can you say *fast* output when needed?  :-)

- Trent Lange

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