22 Jan
2018
22 Jan
'18
3:44 p.m.
On 2018-01-22 6:06 PM, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote:
On 01/22/2018 11:14, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Assuming you didn't fill the heap. Garbage collection wasn't implemented
during a job. :)
--T
For a brief while, the LaserWriter was the fastest, most powerful
computer in Apple's limeup.? If you are crazy enough, You can
communicate directly with it and program in Postscript (similar to Forth)
Heck, it was faster than the Macs, PCs, and the VAX-11/750 we had! At
least for one storage-free job at a time.
A few of my fellow students (hello D Fischer) who fiddled with
Postscript would download jobs to compute and print fractals that would
run overnight on the printer... and much of the following day, in some
cases.
--S.