🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <21189@mimsy.umd.edu> folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes:
>>Jobs made mistake #1 with his NeXT.  It all depends on PostScript.
>I worry about QuickDraw.  One nice thing about PostScript is that it is
>universal.  I can (with a little difficulty) generate PostScript on my Mac,
>ship it across a 7-bit communications path--it is ASCII, not binary--and
>print it on any of dozens of different systems.  QuickDraw will never do
>that.
>Another thing I really like about PostScript is that, being ASCII, I can
>edit a graphics file to do things that even the most expensive drawing
>programs cannot do.  QuickDraw, being binary, wouldn't gove me a chance,
>even with ResEdit.

The thing that bothers me is that Posscript is ascii, this makes its
files ridiculously large. The software that interprets it is slower
than molassses because it has to parse that ascii and convert it to
something that can actually be drawn. This is why newer Postscript clone
printers are getting faster. They are eliminating these problems. Give
me QuickDraw any day...




---

-- 
Norm Goodger				SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862
3Com Corp.				Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie.
Enterprise Systems Division             (I disclaim anything and everything)
UUCP: {3comvax,auspex,sun}!bridge2!ngg  Internet: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM