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		zerocrates on May 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sou... This has me thinking of the era when the LaserWriter printer had a significantly faster CPU and more RAM than the Macs it was paired with. The complexities of interfacing with the analog world...

jecel on May 15, 2020 [–]

The LaserWriter had to run the Postscript interpreter, which required a lot more CPU power than just generating Postscript files like the Mac did.

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