Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On Thu, 29 May 2025 18:36:26 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

Except that in the era of PostScript, your PC was a weakling vs. today
and generating that "compact PostScript" to send to the printer would
have taken a lot more than a "few secs" on CPU's of the era.

If a client wanted some of the formatting features available with
PostScript but didn't have a PS printer we spawned GhostScript to massage
the PS file and copied the result to the printer. No problemo.