Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!eutrc3!rcbaps
From: rcbaps@eutrc3.UUCP (Pieter Schoenmakers)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Dhrystone 2.n Results (1 of 2)
Summary: What people can get angry about.
Keywords: $500 is enough
Message-ID: <398@eutrc3.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 08:58:58 GMT
References: <1266@cps3xx.UUCP> <6361@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: rcbaps@eutrc3.UUCP (Pieter Schoenmakers)
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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In article <6361@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Eric Green writes:

>                                             Besides, most low-cost
>printers and line-printers can only handle 132-char lines, and not
>EVERYBODY has a $10,000 laser printer sitting next to them. Not to
>mention that people on IBM 'frames running VM/CMS couldn't print
>160-char lines even if they DID have a line printer capable of it. As
>far as I know, the "print" virtual device is hard-coded at 132 chars....

Well, uncompressing/uudecoding wasn't a problem. And to avoid any possible
problems, I took the file home and printed it on a $500 Epson RX-100+
printer in condensed mode (which is stupid, I could have done it using
the 'Elite' pitch). Why is everybody so angry?

Greetings,
---Tiggr