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From: greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: PostScript -> DVI or anything else
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Date: 5 May 89 15:13:59 GMT
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In article <4079@ficc.uu.net> cliff@ficc.uu.net (cliff click) writes:

>We also have a suite of programs that break (lockup and/or cold boot) the 
>Apple Laserwriter.  I wonder what would happen if we fed them to 
>DisplayPostscript on NeXT or Sun?  %-)

Go ahead and run them.  I predict that they'll work fine.  You didn't
mention what model LaserWriter you ran these on, but if it is really
the "LaserWriter", or even the Plus, and not one of the II models, then
it isn't surprising.  That original printer was discontinued in 1986,
when the Plus came out, and the Plus is also now a discontinued
product, as of 1987, I think.

Also, the old LaserWriter used to reboot sometimes when it ran out of
memory at an inopportune time.  This was a bug, but it means it was very
easy to write a program on purpose to cause that printer to reboot.  All
you had to do was to over-allocate memory.

Glenn Reid
Adobe Systems