[rescue] Mac Appliance

[Dave McGuire]

On August 3, Bill Bradford 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*.

  Yes.  And they're rather zippy.

> >   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.

  That was my point..."why interpret the postscript twice" was what
the NeXT developers said.  Sorry if I was unclear.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD