tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) (07/31/90)
Could someone please post the addresses of companies that sell cartridges for HP Laser Jet printers. These cartridges should have a Postscript interpreter. I heard of their existence in this newsgroup a few months ago, and now I'd like to buy one. How come an interpreter doesn't run in software? I know it would be slow, but how slow? Some people can put up with slowness. Or is it due to legal reasons? -- Tom Reingold tr@samadams.princeton.edu rutgers!princeton!samadams!tr 201-577-5814 "Brew strength depends upon the amount of coffee used." -Black&Decker
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (08/01/90)
In article <1512@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) writes: >How come an interpreter doesn't run in software? I know it would be >slow, but how slow? Some people can put up with slowness. Or is it >due to legal reasons? Such things do exist, but (a) a cartridge only needs to come in one version, rather than one per host, and (b) a cartridge is a lot harder to make unauthorized copies of. Actually, the cartridge contains software, to run on the printer's own CPU, but (a) and (b) remain valid. -- The 486 is to a modern CPU as a Jules | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology Verne reprint is to a modern SF novel. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry