Postscript as a REAL programming language.

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From: games
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 17:07

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Pistscript is sure cool.  It just hit me though that (not for production 
purposes) postscript could be abused into doing like regular programs.

Like if you were stupid, and worked real hard at the code, you might even
get a postscript printer to boot DOS?  or is there a showstopper?
Obviously, you have an input device (attach your keyboard to the
serial port, via your favorite terminal emulater), and you can spit
messages out the serial port, right?, and even if you cant, you still have
a printer for feedback to the user...

I know that this is a wierd thing to contemplate, and I for one never intend to
even come close to trying such a thing, but I just want to know if it might
be possible...

Along the same lines, does anyone have any examp-les of postscript code that
are aimed at doing things other than laying out a page?

			John.

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