State of the art

[Allison]

>
>Subject: RE: State of the art
>   From: "Gil Carrick" <gilcarrick at comcast.net>
>   Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:43:01 -0500
>     To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"	<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>For several years Don Lancaster wrote a column in Computer Shopper extolling
>the virtues of PostScript as a programming language. I didn't have the
>impression that he was touting the printer as a coprocessor as much as he
>was pointing out that since ps qualified as a general purpose programming
>language you could do some amazing things with it inside the printer. Not
>being heavily into graphics I didn't follow it closely.

Being close or atleast based on Forth stack language it was fun to use the 
uVAX in the laps 40 to do things like process and print calculated results.
My favorite was a print job that stayed resident and printed pages as 2up
as a paper saver.  Another like that counted pages used since loading.


Allison