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- From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
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- Subject: Re: Disturbing News about Printing Under Solaris 2.1
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.150831.4568@ra.msstate.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 15:08:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.081101.1876@ukw.uucp> lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) says:
- : dlukas@fenway.bu.edu (David Lukas) writes:
- : > In any case I don't think NeWSprint itself works under
- : >Solaris 2.1 -- I know there is a compatibility mode but NeWSprint does
- : >some funny things that might not work in compatibility mode.
- :
- : There is *no* compatibilty mode *inside* the kernel. Device drivers
- : and STREAMS modules must be ported or recompiled.
-
- His point, I think, is that newsprint is unlikely to work even if you
- want to drive some other type of printer off the parallel port that
- ships with the newer systems.
-
- Remember, newsprint and the lpvi device drivers are two separate packages
- even though they are both necessary to drive a sparcprinter.
-
- : >My Sun rep tells me that the whole setup will be ported to Solaris 2.1
- : >by March.
- :
- : This is the sore spot of the entire Solaris 2 story. The optional
- : software is lagging behind a lot. Have a look at the SunLink
- : and SunNet products. Same story.
-
- I get a strong impression of confusion within Sun. I get the impression
- that most of Sun expected the transition to be a gradual migration pushed
- throughout 1993. The Viking multiprocessors were to be a reasonable
- carrot to encourage sites to make the move.
-
- Then SMCC went and introduced several more new machines in the low end
- and the high end and the whole thing got more rushed. Now other parts
- of Sun seem to be finding themselves pressured to deliver sooner than
- they expected to be.
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