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

[Liam G. H. Proven]

On 9/5/19 12:03 AM, Mouse wrote:

> 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.

AFAIK that's the same way that the NeXT laser printer worked, and indeed 
the even rarer Atari laser printer for the ST.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Laser_Printer

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/16bits/printers/laser/slm804.html

It wasn't an uncommon model at the time.

  - Liam P.