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- From: wilcoxt@cuug.ab.ca (Terrance Wilcox 229-3361)
- Subject: Re: End of NeXT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.182613.4627@cuug.ab.ca>
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:26:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec25.143726.3939@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- > Hewlett Packard LaserJet 4M Postscript Level two < $2500.
- >
- > 600 dpi, 8 ppm.
- >
- > No processor time sucking.
- >
-
- Meanwhile, I have a PS level 2 printer, 400 DPI for a great deal less than
- $2500. When PS gets upgraded again, my printer gets upgraded again. No
- cartridges, no checking for fonts in memory.
-
- > Still think the NeXT laser is a good deal? Then consider:
- >
- > HP LJ4 (not PS) + 4 megs: $1500
- > ghostscript (free)
- > == postscript 600 dpi for $400 more than the NeXT edu price.
- >
-
- Since I have built-in PS, why would I need Ghostscript. Why would I pay
- $400 more for the HP? I've got a fast, compatible, PS level 2, 400 DPI
- laser for a good price. Why should I complain?
-
- > NeXT designed their systems so that adding non-next peripherals
- > (who else would be dense enough to make a printer that can only
- > hook to a NeXT??) is either impossible, or agonizing. A parallel
- > port (which would add, what, 30 cents to the cost of the machine?)
- > would have opened the doors to printers that are arriving now.
- > By the end of '93, those lowly PC users will be buying fast
- > 600 dpi printers for about $1000 to $1200.
- >
-
- So those same PC users can have their parallel port and run NeXTSTEP 486.
-
- Terry Wilcox
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