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From: anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson, MACC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PostScript Interpreter for the PC
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Date: 4 Jan 89 23:54:56 GMT
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In article <83724@sun.uucp>, mms%sordid@Sun.COM (Michael Silverstein) writes...

]In article <8904@mhuxu.UUCP> poc@mhuxu.UUCP (Paul O'Connor) writes:
]>*> 
]>*> 
]>*> 	A product called "GoScript" is being advertised in PC
]>*> magazines. Sold by LaserGo, Inc., it purports to be a PostScript
]>*> interpreter for the PC that can output to dotmatrix and laser
]>*> printers.

]I have this product and have used it successfully to print Postscript
]output from various desktop publishers on my Epson LQ.

Is there a driver for Toshiba 321 (24-pin 360x360)?

]The most serious drawback is the speed (or lack thereof). On my 286
]machine, Norton SI rated at 11.5 with a 39 msec disk, an average page
]takes 40 minutes to print (no typo: I said FORTY minutes per page).
]Reason: the product implements virtual memory on the disk to construct
]the bitmap. 

Would it work at all with RAM-disk, I wonder?  How much disk
space does it chew up?

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