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From: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Laser Printer for 695 dollars
Message-ID: <790@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Jan-84 11:17:22 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 22 11:17:22 1984
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Reply-To: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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Note that a raster-style printer of this resolution and speed uses about
700k to 1 megabits per second, plus one ten point font requires about 10 or
15 kilobytes for the font template.  Preformatting an entire page in memory
as a bitmap requires almost a megabyte of scratch space (needed only if
document hasn't been presorted in page order, a daisy-wheel simulator could
reasonably be limited to a 32Kbyte buffer to hold subscript/superscript
excursions.

-- 
Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD
System Development Corp.
2500 Colorado Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90406
(213)820-4111 x5449
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