ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) (10/27/88)
In article <231@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes: >In article <25141@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >... >> The imager can image much faster than this printer can >>print (8ppm), so the bottleneck is in the printer. >I have seen unimpressive pages on which a LaserWriter cranks well over >an hour to output. For the NeXT machine to output a 1 LaserWriter-hour page >it would have to interpret PostScript more than 28000 times as fast... A lot of the hard stuff might be floating point stuff, which unadorned Laserwriters have no hardware support for. Given the NeXT has an '882 AND a DSP chip. So I have no problem imaging ~1000 times speedup for 'normal' hard pages. Maybe Adobe obtained the other 1.5 orders of magnitude by doing a better implementation:-) -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@ius3.cs.cmu.edu Phone:(412) CMU-BUGS Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA "You can do what you want with my computer, but leave me alone!8-)"