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- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR$ (and Dell hardware) total lack of success on Postscript
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:27:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.002730.21791@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1992Jul18.002830.9207@dellunix.dell.com> <t3bm!g+@dixie.com> <1992Jul20.220337.4427@digibd.com>
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- In article <1992Jul20.220337.4427@digibd.com> rhealey@dellr4.digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes:
- > I've installed HP and HP alike
- > printers on a couple of different SVR4's, Dell and AmigaUNIX
- > mostly, and the parallel interface works great on both systems.
- > The serial wouldn't fly no matter what I tried and it didn't
- > seem worth the effort to bother.
-
- Lucky you. Some of aren't so fortunate to 10 or 15 parallel ports
- hanging off of a machine.
-
- I have one machine that has an HP LJ+, HP IID, IBM Laser (forgot the
- model), two HP rugged Writers as dedicated printer ports, and about 4
- Okidata 182s hanging off PC's as attached printers, and 5 or 6 182's
- hanging off dual protocol terminals that act as local
- printers for the SCO system, or screen print for the mainframe. (I
- think one of the above may have a mainframe polled address, but I don't
- fool with that). And there is one more PC acting as a smart terminal
- that also has an IBM laser on that.
-
- I've had some problems with some serial interfaces, but all you have to
- do is monitor the lines. Then you find out that hardware handshaking
- can be on different lines even from printers that outwardly appear the
- same (but have different serial interfaces internally).
-
- I'd hate to think how slow a system could be with about a 1/2 dozen
- parallel ports hanging off of it. A good intelligent serial board
- really works nice.
-
- Oh, and the IID also has a smart serial switch, as two of the PC
- terminal emulators have a parallel to serial conversion on them so the
- local 123 program can use the laser printer. By the end of next week
- the IID will be shared with the SCO system and 3 PC's.
-
- Gives a total of about 15 printer and 20 terminals - but I may have
- missed counting something.
-
- Serial isn't THAT hard to do.
- --
- Bill Vermillion - bill.vermillion@oau.org
- - bill@bilver.uucp
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