[mdlug] Plan 9 from Bell Labs

[Dan Pritts]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 01:27:26AM -0500, Michael Corral wrote:
> I have a 68025 NeXTStation running NS 3.3, with a 17" grayscale NeXT
> monitor and a NeXT laser printer (the one that talks - a woman's voice
> lets you know when the toner is low or if you're out of paper). It's
> a bit slow at only 25MHz, but no more so than a comparable 486 PC of
> that time.

aren't those monitors sweet?  so, so, so sharp.  nicest CRT I ever
used.  

the voice actually comes out of the computer, not the printer.

NeXT's printer was a dumb bitmap engine only; all the postscript processing
was done by the host.

danno
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