On 2018-01-22 6:06 PM, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote: > On 01/22/2018 11:14, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: >> >> For a brief while, the LaserWriter was the fastest, most powerful >> computer in Apple's limeup. If you are crazy enough, You can >> communicate directly with it and program in Postscript (similar to Forth) > > Heck, it was faster than the Macs, PCs, and the VAX-11/750 we had! At > least for one storage-free job at a time. > > A few of my fellow students (hello D Fischer) who fiddled with > Postscript would download jobs to compute and print fractals that would > run overnight on the printer... and much of the following day, in some > cases.
Assuming you didn't fill the heap. Garbage collection wasn't implemented during a job. :) --T > > --S. > >