Timeline for How did early laser printers get by with so little memory?
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| Apr 14, 2021 at 16:41 | comment | added | supercat | @manassehkatz-Moving2Codidact: They were a design compromise. For many users who would have nothing better to do while a document was printing, they offered a more favorable balance between price and performance than would otherwise be possible, by exploiting computing resources that would otherwise be going unused while printing. Using a 386DX desktop CPU for rendering and a microcontroller for print buffering could offer faster printing performance at a lower cost than using a 386SX-equivalent CPU in the printer while the desktop CPU sits idle. | |
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| Apr 14, 2021 at 13:43 | comment | added | The Impaler | @manassehkatz-Moving2Codidact Probably it was something like GDI. In this case the workstation was a Solaris one, so it probably was the equivalent tech for unix. | |
| Apr 14, 2021 at 13:39 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | You had a GDI printer. Truth is that now they're not so bad, between high speed interfaces (USB or network) and fast computers to render the bitmap, but back then they were generally a bad idea. | |
| Apr 14, 2021 at 13:39 | history | edited | The Impaler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 14, 2021 at 13:33 | history | answered | The Impaler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |