10 Apr
2005
10 Apr
'05
7:49 a.m.
At 09:19 PM 4/9/2005, der Mouse wrote:
Well, back in that day, the Laserwriter had a CPU quite comparable to
what was in the personal computer. Same for the Commodore 64 and its
1541 disk drive. :-)
- John
Back in 1988,
when sending a semi-complex page took tens of minutes
to spool, PS was magic for me -- computer control was returned in
less than half a minute and I could keep working while this complex
page was formed on the printer.
I still remember the time, soon after we (at the university lab I
worked for at the time) got our first LaserWriter, when I wrote PS code