4 Jun
2004
4 Jun
'04
10:49 a.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
"EMS"/"Expanded" memory
is simply bank switching.
...
So, he developed a laser printer interface (JLASER for
Canon CX)
that did all of the rasterizing, etc. in the host computer,
and THAT took some RAM!
I used a JLASER card for my first explorations of PostScript, way
back in 1987. I worked for a small software house called London
Software Studio, and we wrote presentation graphics software. One
of our plans was to add a postscript hard-copy option, so that
users could make high-quality printouts and OHP transparencies.
I still have the PostScript code that I wrote on that thing, using
a Victor 286 machine as the host.
--
John Honniball
coredump(a)gifford.co.uk