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From: death@btr.btr.com (david john burrowes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How low can you go?
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Date: 28 Feb 91 18:15:36 GMT
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In reply to: >From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
>Do you want an 8-pages-per-minute laser printer or a
>page-every-2-minutes laser printer?
>I'm not being facetious.

  On the other hand, if the printer isn't being used to generate printouts that
are needed for immediate proofing or for reports due 5 minutes ago, and money
for new RAM isn't magically appearing where none was before, it may well be
that a 2 minute per page printer (or even slower) is quite acceptable if it
means speeding one's own machine up a bit.
  I'd certainly prefer it in those circumstances.

\david