Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: <1991May1.152922.25632@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 1 May 91 15:29:22 GMT References: <912@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 32 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <912@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes: > > > I'll say before the NeXToids. Theirs does just that. There are > also interface boards that drop into PC's, but have their own CPU > and RAM. They interprest the PS and dump it to the printer. > > My question is: why burn system CPU bandwith on a mutlitasking machine, > since the cost of PS on a laser with it's own CPU already is so small. > >If you put Postscript in the laser printer, then you have to pay >royalties to Adobe for that too. The NeXT laser printer only costs >$1795($1295 educational), and it has costs that much for the past ^^^^ It only costs $1795? What a bargain, if your rich! There are laser printers for HALF that price! >year. > >-Mike (: << reversed smiley face -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN Tomas Arce Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :) Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.