Warp wrote:

>   It's a shame that almost no printer nowadays supports reading and
> interpreting PostScript anymore (nowadays almost every single one of them
> has a OS driver which interprets the PostScript on the computer and only
> then sends the chewed up page data to the printer), but in the good old
> days when PS files were sent *raw* to printers and the printer interpreted
> it, it was fun to send a PostScript Mandelbrot for them to ruminate about.

Hey, I STILL DO THIS! :-D

I know most cheap printers don't support PostScript, but IME 
industrial-grade laser printers still accept raw PS as input. (E.g., our 
recently-purchased HP LaserJet 4250 accepts it just fine.)

I think it's just cheaper to make the host do it then put a powerful 
computer inside the printer itself. Makes the printer cheaper.

(Do you remember the scandle of "win modems"?)

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