[rescue] Mac Appliance

[joshua d boyd]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:41:47AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:34:45AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >   "Fast-clocked" != "powerful".  Clock speed isn't a measure of
> > computing performance.
> 
> Example in point: PDP-11/70.  I know people (companies, resellers) who
> are STILL looking for these boxes when they become available, because
> they *work* and they *JUST DONT DIE*.

Does it have to be the 11/70, or would other 11s run their software?  Why
look for old ones when they can buy new PDP 11s?
 
> >   Though I don't agree with the idea, we must understand why they did
> > it.  NeXTs have a postscript display system...Why interpret the
> > postscript twice?  Not trying to be agumentative, but I it's an
> > important point.
> 
> Where is it interpreting it twice?  The NeXT laser printer was just a 
> dumb engine that got the image info from the CPU; kinda like how the
> SPARCprinter works.  It *was* only getting rendered once, unless I'm
> mistaken.

Err, his point was that with a smart printer it would have had two
interpreters instead of only one.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd