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macintuxtoday at 12:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

My boss, many years ago, talked about the time he programmed a printer to act as a web server using Postscript. I never asked what happened to other print requests while it was running.


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ale42today at 1:06 PM

They were silently sent to the client browsers... ;-)

jeffrallentoday at 2:46 PM

They were routed to the integrated time machine in PS, and sent to the year 2026 when they would be rendered in mobile phones, then the bitmaps would be sent back in time to your boss's printer.