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- From: ijeff@hank.carleton.ca (Ian Jefferson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
- Subject: Re: End of NeXT
- Message-ID: <ijeff.725479503@cunews>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 18:05:03 GMT
- References: <72148@cup.portal.com> <1992Dec22.040523.2598@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec24.210903.15719@cuug.ab.ca> <1992Dec25.143726.3939@wam.umd.edu>
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- In <1992Dec25.143726.3939@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
-
- >>I've got to ask. Why do I need a parallel port? Why do I need more than a
- >>brainless printer? As it is, I've got a fast 400 DPI laser. That's better
- >>than most PC users, and they have parallel ports and intelligent printer.
- >>All they have to worry about is drivers and cables and incompatibilities and
- >>font cartridges...
-
-
- > Hewlett Packard LaserJet 4M Postscript Level two < $2500.
-
- > 600 dpi, 8 ppm.
-
- > No processor time sucking.
-
- Well if you print large images like I do then you are going to run out of memory on your HP.
- The NeXT printer is the only 8 ppm printer that actually seems to print at 8ppm all the rest
- only sometimes do includeing the HP.
-
- > 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.
-
- > NeXT designed their systems so that adding non-next peripherals
- > (who else would be dense enough to make a printer that can only
-
- Apple and some other hardware manufacuters have done the same thing so that some printers will only
- work with the Mac.
-
- > hook to a NeXT??) is either impossible, or agonizing. A parallel
- > port (which would add, what, 30 cents to the cost of the machine?)
-
- It takes board realestate I don't think there is much left and besides, printing at
- 38.4 Kbytes/sec vs printing through a ppl port is at best marginaly slower. Also we
- avoid parallel printers because we can't do printer accounting with them. If you really
- want good, standard connectivity then go with ethernet which is available on most new
- printers. What's wrong with that?
-
- > 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 you can still buy them and use them!
-
- I've always find the objection to the NeXT printer strange. Why is it
- that people think that a slower printer with a slower connection the
- host that has a processor that can't print some images is a better deal
- than a faster simpler printer that can? Perhaps NeXT could glue a dsp
- on the cover of the printer and then you would be happy!
-
- Better more expensive printers do exist and you can connect them. So what
- is the big deal? Parallel ports are silly unidirectional devices at best.
- Better to go ethernet or appletalk.
-
-
- >>
- >>Terry Wilcox
- >>
- >>PS. I forget emulation and TrueType and all that crap.
- >>
-
-
- >--
- > "If you can't eat sand, why the hell are you living in a desert?"
-
- > Equality is a delusion, suffering is a fairy tale and God is a fantasy.
- > Blaming society for inequality is like blaming the sky for rain.
- --
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- Ian Jefferson ijeff@ccs.carleton.ca No NeXT mail please!
- ijeff@computeractive.on.ca NeXT mail please!
-