On Sat, 29 May 1999, Allison J Parent wrote:
>The most extreme was the LPS40 (DEC, 12/27/1997) that literally had a
>BA23 microvax in the base to do, networking, distributed queue management,
>Postscript to raster engine interpretation. It was then handed to a 4board
>set (bimaps and display list to raster bitmap engine) and set serially to
>the printengine. The printengine had 1 8085 to manage the system, 3 8749s
>to manage the mechanics and a 78pg11 to handle the large capacity paper
>input. All that was to print complex postscript pages at 40ppm. That
>seems obscene but starting one piece of A4 paper every 1.5 second plus
>between three and four peices in transit is not a trivial task. Then there
>was the Xerox 9700 (120ppm) monster (10+running feet of laser printer.).
How big is the LPS40? Can the microvax be programmed ( :) )? BTW, do you
know if the Xerox machines use any kind of common computer? At school, we
have an enormous Xerox copier with a touch screen to enter the selection,
and I was wondering what it used.
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Received on Sat May 29 1999 - 11:05:42 BST