Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bob+ From: bob+@andrew.cmu.edu (Bob Sidebotham) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Host software alternatives to PS engines? Message-ID:Date: 28 Sep 88 16:27:12 GMT References: <39964@linus.UUCP>, <2389@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: <2389@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> > *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.lang.postscript: 16-Sep-88 Re: Host software* > *alternati.. Edward J. Ede@mitre-bedf (3222)* > A 300x300 dpi printer > would require 9 times the memory of a 100x100 screen. > (300x300x8.5x11) = ~ 1 Megabyte. You could do the page in passes, but > that > would require multiple interpretations of the PostScript. The point is that rather than buying a MB of memory and an additional 68000 processor of some sort in a printer, where it's not much use most of the time, I'd rather allocate any additional memory to my Mac/SE, perhaps turning it into a 2MB machine. At that point, I could run MultiFinder and do the printing in the background anyway. Bob Sidebotham (bob+@andrew.cmu.edu) Carnegie Mellon University