Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!DMasterson
From: DMasterson@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Computer Chronicles strikes again!
Message-ID: <4693@cup.portal.com>
Date: 22 Apr 88 20:10:47 GMT
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In message <2182@antique.UUCP>, cjp@antique.UUCP writes:
>In article <10249@sunybcs.UUCP> jmpiazza@sunybcs.UUCP writes:
>|memory.  On a 1 Meg Mac SE I can run Word 3.01 and Versatrerm 3.0 at the
>|same time -- but I can't print on a LaserWriter untill I quit from one of
>|the programs.  Let's see if I can run Handshake and WordPerfect after
>|turning off my 1 Meg Insider (leaving me with 512K on my 1000) and Facc II ...,
>|... [multitasking test deleted]
>|	So, I think it's safe to say the Mac SE/Plus with 1 Meg isn't as
>|resource efficient as the Amiga with 512K.
>
>While your conclusion is probably correct, the test you performed is
>not strictly fair unless your printer is also a LaserWriter or a
>printer of equivalent resolution.  I believe these printers require a
>substantially large buffer to build their bitmaps into.
>
Is this true??  I don't think so.  Laserprinters have their own internal
memory buffers for constructing the output.  I don't think the printouts of
our MAC SE to the Laserwriter occupy more memory than is required to send the
proper commands to the printer.  Isn't the Laserwriter postscript compatible
and, therefore, the image is not sent to the printer, just the postscript
commands?

>-- 
>	Charles Poirier   (decvax,ihnp4,attmail)!vax135!cjp
>
>   "Docking complete...       Docking complete...       Docking complete..."

David Masterson
DMasterson@cup.portal.com

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