LaserWriter Plus

[John Foust]

At 09:19 PM 4/9/2005, der Mouse wrote:
>> Back in 1988, when sending a semi-complex page took tens of minutes
>> to spool, PS was magic for me -- computer control was returned in
>> less than half a minute and I could keep working while this complex
>> page was formed on the printer.
>
>I still remember the time, soon after we (at the university lab I
>worked for at the time) got our first LaserWriter, when I wrote PS code

Well, back in that day, the Laserwriter had a CPU quite comparable to
what was in the personal computer.  Same for the Commodore 64 and its
1541 disk drive.  :-)

- John