[rescue] the folly of getting a sparcprinter 1 running fro scratch

[Mouse]

>> It was a Raster printer in the most literal sense.

>> All the "brains" were on the SBus card, and the signal between the
>> card and the printer was essentially a video signal, to drive the
>> laser directly.

I'm not sure I'd say that.  Much of the brains - the stuff necessary to
generate page bitmaps - were actually in host-side software.

> So, it was like a WinPrinter?

In that respect, yes.

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