> and memory on the computer to hold an entire page of pixels. I mean, at 72dpi that's 50KB just for the data! Fwiw it was common for text editors at the time

> and memory on the computer to hold an entire page of pixels. I mean, at 72dpi that's 50KB just for the data! Fwiw it was common for text editors at the time to render/raster in chunks and then send that off to the printer. For complicated documents, the printer sometimes had to take pauses while the computer worked