Bill Ballard wrote: > The arrival of such a rich language as PostScript for personal computers (mind you, the ones with the GUI to use it) required printers of much higher resolution than the preavailing dot-mtrix priners. The technology of xerox (make that a capitl "X" if you'ld like) printing was adpated to be computer-driven, and specifically PostScript driven. In those early days, 300dpi was top dog, as was the 300bd modem. Out of respect for the list, I'll do a little fact checking on this last point. > > Of course all of this is anceint history (as many people would have you believe the Mac is) But I digress. ---------- Yes, I know. We bought one of the first Mac/Laserwriter combinations sold in Sacramento. I think it was the second one. I switched to the dos "clone" system when I started working with CAD. In those days there was nothing available for the Mac. And I do mean nothing. It wasn't until several years later that a couple of fairly crude CAD programs became available for the Mac and a couple of years after that before they were really viable. By then I had so much invested in my pc there was no turning back. --Del
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