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From: lawrence@bbn.COM (Gabriel Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: LaserWriter IISC spec.'s...
Message-ID: <6245@ccv.bbn.COM>
Date: 21 Jan 88 18:17:17 GMT
Reply-To: lawrence@ccv.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Gabriel Lawrence)
Organization: Bolt, Baranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
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For those who haven't heard yet, the LaserWriter IISC is the new QuickDraw
based LaserWriter just announced by Apple (similar to GCC's PLP).

I'm intrigued by this new product offering by Apple but have heard very
little about the technical specifications.  Could someone who saw one
up close and personal at the S.F. Expo or who has received literature from
Apple tell me if it includes QuickDraw in ROM (as opposed to performing
all the QuickDraw interpretation in the Mac) and whose font family Apple
licenses for use with it.  

If it does have an on-board QuickDraw interpreter, wouldn't it be substantially
_faster_ than the other PostScript LaserWriters since you are bypassing the
whole process of translating an image from QuickDraw into PostScript??
I realize that the difference in processing time between the IISC and IINTX 
is quickly compensated for by the '020 and additional RAM but is this 
assumption still somewhat valid?

				Just Curious,

=Gabriel Lawrence=
=BBN Communications=

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