Date   : Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:18:24 +0100
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: mystery ROMs

On 18/06/2009 21:02, Phil Blundell wrote:

> Ah right, yes.  *FX142 with VTOPS prints "View to PS Converter" and then
> locks up.  Presumably that means it's not actually a language, and I
> guess that'd make sense if it's some kind of add-on to View.  (The same
> set of ROM boards did come with an untold number of View ROMs so I
> suppose I could have guessed that.)  I wonder how it's meant to be used.

It may not be Acorn's own, but certainly in the mid-80s Acorn were using 
PostScript printers (Apple Laserwriters) on the Econet and sending them 
View documents.  So I'd guess it's a printer driver, but not the usual 
View kind that View uses directly, as those drivers aren't big enough to 
hold the data you'd need.  Indeed, the converter I saw was quite large 
and probably abut the right size for a ROM, though IIRC it ran from floppy.

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