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From: Charles.E.Dubuque@dartmouth.edu (Charles E. Dubuque)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: StyleWriter/DeskWriter - Which to buy?
Message-ID: <1991May31.224818.16086@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: 31 May 91 22:48:18 GMT
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In article <3647@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
kpottie@icarus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Pottie Karl) writes:

> In fact, when I measured the difference between the Deskwriter and
> StyleWriter, the Stylewriter was on an SI and the Deskwriter was on
> and SE/30. So in fact the Stylewriter was hooked to a faster computer.
                                                        ^^^^^^
> Typical figures for a complex page of text and graphics:
>   Deskwriter : 80 seconds
>   Stylewriter : 347 seconds 

You will find that the SE/30, with its FPU and without the overhead of
a color display, is a faster machine than the SI.

Chuck
c.dubuque@dartmouth.edu