10 Apr
2005
10 Apr
'05
10:02 a.m.
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:49:23 -0500
John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
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. :-)
The LaserWriter had one of those massive 64 pin DIP package 68000 chips
on it. Often the LaserWriter had a more powerful CPU than the Macintosh
connected to it.
-Scott
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