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From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How did they make the printer so cheap?
Message-ID: <1023@fai.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 17:06:03 GMT
References: <0XKoeky00UgXM3T24=@andrew.cmu.edu> <73489@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
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In article <73489@sun.uucp> swilson@sun.UUCP (Scott Wilson) writes:
>[...]  This works out to be roughly 1.8 meg of memory
>(assuming I didn't screw up somewhere).  Does this mean that to
>compose a page for the printer the NeXT machine has to briefly use
>this much of its memory?  What kind of transfer rates are expected
>out the printer port?

If I were Jobs, I would set things up so I could do a DMA of the video
memory and blast it directly out to the printer.  No fuss, no muss.


				Ron
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