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All true, and yet…
Your “hand setting” stat necessarily includes the human input part, but (presumably) the Linotype and (definitely) the CRT stats are output numbers only.
Admittedly, Linotype and later tech can better separate the input from the output, and this is incredibly useful. But the CRT is only massively faster than Linotype in *output*; input was still a bottleneck.
I know you know all this. :) Just giving you a hard time for giving short shrift to your beloved Linotype, because if you include input time, the CRT is a much more modest advance in this regard. (Although of course, tons of other advantages, to be sure. There are plenty of reasons for replacing hot metal typesetting.)
Thomas Phinney
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2026-01-17 19:47:44 UTC
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