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From: fmr@cwi.nl (Frank Rahmani)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Re: Host software alternatives to PS engines?
Message-ID: <599@sering.cwi.nl>
Date: 18 Sep 88 18:37:14 GMT
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Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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>>   buy a cheap printing engine, without PostScript support,
>>and do the PostScript to raster conversion in the host computer.  Does anyone
>>know if there is any such product on the market, or anticipated to be? 
> 
If I recall it all right this is what Whitechapel in England once did. They
sold a naked printing engine as well as a naked scanner and used the 
memory of their NS16032 box running Genix (a 4.2 BSD clone). This was sold
as a complete desktop textprocessing system. I didn't get the impression
that they sold it a lot.
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