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us008008@interramp.com (Phil Nasadowski) wrote:


>But my old Apple ][E printed from Appleworks almost instanly after it
>loaded the print stuff in - my Quadra can't do that - M$word needs a PPC
>or Pentium to run decently.

Quite a bit differently.  Now try to use different fonts that your
printer didn't support, in different sizes.  Couldn't be done.  All
your Apple //E did is sent that horrible-looking output to the printer
in character format.  The printers/computers of today have to perform
far mroe calculations to create the glorious-looking documents.

>It's been 15 years.  The power of even a low powered system is at least 10
>X (more like 100X) that of a ][e or a pet.  Why does it take forever for a
>printer to print today if todays machines are so much faster/wonderful.

Because they're doing so much more.  Give me 10X the print time if my
document will allow me to use fonts other than Courier 10.

>My StyleWriter prints in the background - when it pulls in a piece of
>paper, everything stops.

Blame your OS.

>My point is - with all the progress we've made - have we really gotten anywhere?

Quite far, I think.