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Article #5135Re: Linotronic 300
From: calhoun
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 1988 16:05
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 1988 16:05
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/* ---------- "Linotronic 300" ---------- */ > I just got the Adobe PPD files for the Linotronic 100 and 300. > Apparently these printers only have 182,356 and 135,656 bytes > of free VM in their PostScript interpreters! Is this really > the case? Anyone out there used these printers? Even the > poor little QMS PS810 has 400K! > -tom This is NOT the case. The company I used to work for had 2 Linotronic 300's. They are multi-processing Multibus machines. Both of ours had multiple 680x0 boards, oodles of memory and multiple hard drives. One of the hard drives (20MB) was used almost exclusively for virtual memory swapping for the PostScript raster image processor. One must also keep in mind that even a used Linotronic 300 with PostScript will run five figures. The Linotronic machines are not laser printers - they are laser typesetters (there is a difference).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!tank!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!a.cs.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!calhoun From: calhoun@m.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Linotronic 300 Message-ID: <8800020@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 8 Sep 88 16:05:00 GMT References: <3867@polya.Stanford.EDU> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:polya.Stanford.EDU:3867:m.cs.uiuc.edu:8800020:000:880 Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!calhoun Sep 8 11:05:00 1988