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Article #88Re: What sux about PowerMacs and Pentiums
From: Eric Bennett
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 20:51
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 20:51
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In article <3vjdmq$sm@steel.interlog.com> daveacg@interlog.com (Dave Glue) writes: >us008008@interramp.com (Phil Nasadowski) wrote: >>But my old Apple ][E printed from Appleworks almost instanly after it >>loaded the print stuff in - my Quadra can't do that - M$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. Unless you have TimeOut SuperFonts or whatever it's called. Or unless you have AppleWorks GS, but that's getting close to modern :). -Ericb@psu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.cac.psu.edu!lure!ericb From: ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: What sux about PowerMacs and Pentiums Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 20:51:02 GMT Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing Message-ID: <ericb.474.301D4236@psu.edu> References: <2889272621@hoult.actrix.gen.nz> <3vdp7u$n12@lace.Colorado.EDU> <3vdq3t$n12@lace.Colorado.EDU> <3vdtsi$o4l@news.service.uci.edu> <3veaus$mv6@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> <3veiv4$ro6@sundog.tiac.net> <3vgabe$339@falcon.ns.net> <us008008-3107950112340 NNTP-Posting-Host: lure.bmb.psu.edu X-Authinfo-User: emb121@psu.edu X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B]