[Coco] Printing on a Coco with modern printers.

[Al Hartman]

I believe a Coco is powerful enough, it just doesn't have enough memory to 
composite a page.

A CoCo 3 in Turbo mode with a 2 meg upgrade could probably print simple text 
based pages, and upscale CoCo resolution graphics pages. The limiting factor 
would be the serial port speed, rather than the processor speed.

Especially, if it was equipped with a hard drive and used a page file.

I used to sell LaserMaster Printers that did this on 386 based computers, 
and this is how an Atari-ST printed to a Laser printer through the DMA port 
with a limit of 2mb of RAM.

-[ Al ]-


-----Original Message----- 
From: Aaron Wolfe

You said:

"I don't agree that a Coco or a Coco 3 isn't powerful enough to print
to modern printers. It might assemble a page more slowly than a modern
computer, and might not be able to rasterize a full page at high
resolution due to memory constraints, but there's no reason a Coco
can't print text or graphics at usual CoCo resolutions to a modern
printer."

Now you are saying that you do agree that a CoCo isn't powerful enough
to print to modern printers, and instead a PC with drivers is
required?

Who's on first?

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