[rescue] SparcPrinter

Kevin Loch kloch at gurunet.net
Wed May 29 09:53:20 CDT 2002


James Lockwood wrote:
> 
> Offloading Postscript rendering to the print server made a lot of sense at
> the time, as the required CPU power was large and the access pattern
> bursty.  Not many other printers from 1991 could sustain 12ppm at 400dpi
> (though admittantly it requires a reasonably fast host to do so).
> 

Don't forget memory was expensive then too.

KL



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