[comp.text] Linotronic 300

rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (09/08/88)

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

calhoun@m.cs.uiuc.edu (09/08/88)

/* ---------- "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).

langdon@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Bruce Langdon) (09/09/88)

In article <3867@polya.Stanford.EDU>, rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
> Apparently these printers only have 182,356 and 135,656 bytes
> of free VM in their PostScript interpreters!  Is this really
> the case?