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From: hwt@.bnr.ca (Henry Troup)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript Language
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Date: 2 Mar 90 16:16:40 GMT
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In article <9457@imagen.UUCP> ib@apolling (Ivan N. Bach) writes:
>...would be concerned about unnecessary wasting of scarce resources.

I'm not aware that the resources involved are particularly scarce - in
my environment. We don't generally store PostScript on disk devices -
so disk space, which is not scarce here anyway, is not a wasted resource.
The time to download PostScript is generally neglible with regard to the 
time to image it - so we don't waste a lot of time.
The AppleTalk networks are multi-access, but the printers aren't, so
users time is not particularly wasted either. The Unix attached PostScript
engines are on dedicated serial lines that aren't used for anything else.

What could be regarded as a waste is the 20K or so of PostScript preamble
that most desktop publishing software (especially on Unix) includes because
the imaging model of the software is not PostScript, and so a new virtual
machine must be defined.  That annoys me a little - but not as much as
this discussion does.


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Henry Troup - BNR owns but does not share my opinions
..utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!hwt%bmerh490 or  HWT@BNR.CA