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- From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
- Subject: Re: Atari Falcons $799!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.230756.22656@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 23:07:56 GMT
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- david matiskella writes
- > > > Not to mention there's still nothing that beats QuickDraw in
- > > > imaging model. (No, there isn't)
- > >
- > > Yes there is. Display PostScript.
- > >
- > Well Display postscript on the Next is not exactly a speed
- > demon in color. Unless of course you have one of those
- > dimension boards with around 20 meg of ram.
-
- No, its not a speed demon (but neither is it terribly slow). But
- that's nothing that more powerful chips and more RAM won't cure.
- This is true of most things.
- But if you're looking at an imaging _model_ then IMHO having
- on-screen exactly what will go to the printer is unbeatable. Display
- PostScript gives you that. Quickdraw does not.
-
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- Stefano Pagiola
- Food Research Institute, Stanford University
- spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
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