Fred Cisin wrote:
> "EMS"/"Expanded" memory
> is simply bank switching.
...
> So, he developed a laser printer interface (JLASER for Canon CX)
> that did all of the rasterizing, etc. in the host computer,
> and THAT took some RAM!
I used a JLASER card for my first explorations of PostScript, way
back in 1987. I worked for a small software house called London
Software Studio, and we wrote presentation graphics software. One
of our plans was to add a postscript hard-copy option, so that
users could make high-quality printouts and OHP transparencies.
I still have the PostScript code that I wrote on that thing, using
a Victor 286 machine as the host.
--
John Honniball
coredump_at_gifford.co.uk
Received on Fri Jun 04 2004 - 17:49:36 BST