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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
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Date: 16 Dec 89 19:17:52 GMT
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>I wasn't saying it WAS worth anything. I was pointing out that spooling was
>available for Mac PS printing with the implication that it wasn't on
>the NeXT.

Spooling IS on the NeXT. What makes the print process stall the 
whole machine is that the printer has no postscript interpreter
and the WINDOW-SERVER can't interpret postscript for the screen
and for the printer at the same time. As soon as you print on
a printer with it's own postscript engine, there is hardly any
noticable slowdown, there is complete spooling as in any UNIX
system.

>Price tag is irrelevant, as I said before

Well, if it is irrelevant, why are all people talking about 
bang/buck ratio? Just send me your superflous money, I'll take
care of it...

>Hmmmm. The sheer _amount_ of rules for the Mac UI is larger than the
>corresponding amount for the NeXT. Given what we've learned about the amount
>of deviation to which programmers subscribe on the Mac, what's going to happen
>when Microsoft releases Word for the NeXT? Ugh.

Maybe it is not how MANY guidelines there are, but WHAT guidelines.
The more there are, the less I'll remember them all, and the less
consistent will my programs be.

Ronald
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