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Article #7517Re: Re: Host software alternatives to PS engines?
From: Frank Rahmani
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1988 18:37
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1988 18:37
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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. -- It is better never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? Maintainer's Motto: If we can't fix it, it ain't broke. These opinions are solely mine and in no way reflect those of my employer.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!mcvax!fmr 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 References: <Sep.15.20.22.32.1988.622@athos.rutgers.edu> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 15