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- Organization: Rohm and Haas Company
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:53:01 EST
- From: Aengus Lawlor <RBYAML@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
- Message-ID: <92357.085301RBYAML@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
- Subject: RE: LAT Parallel Print Servers
- References: <01GSL0E92C0W8ZEEL4@CBE.AB.CA>
- Lines: 50
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- In article <01GSL0E92C0W8ZEEL4@CBE.AB.CA>, "Glen Larwill, Computing Services,
- (403)294-8380" <NETMGR02@CBE.AB.CA> says:
- >
- >>>I'm looking for a 2 port inexpensive parallel print server.
- >>>
- >>>I see the DECserver 250 in DECdirect... but this is a little two expensive r
- >fo
- >>>our tastes.... and over kill for our application.....
- >>>
- >>>Thanks in advance.... any and all will be appreciated....
- >>>
- >>>Mark Montanez
- >>>
- >>It seems so obvious, doesn't it? All these ethernet ports for printers that
- >>have to support various versions of IPX, and remote printer stuff, and queue
- >>management, yet nobody seems to sell a simple LAT terminal server with a
- >>single parallel port for output. They've been making big one with lots of
- >>serial ports for years, so a little one with one or two parallel ports
- >doesn't
- >>sound like too much to ask for, does it.......
- >
- >Terminal servers that contain parallel ports DO exist. The DECServer 250
- >has 2 parallel ports and 4 asynch ports. I have never used one, but I
- >don't imagine that they work much differently from the simple asynch
- >terminal servers.
- Look at the original message! The 250 is a terminal server, and priced as
- such. The market is for a HP compatible expansion card that can be a LAT
- device. I could set up a queue on the VAX, and plug my printer anywhere
- on the network, and it would work without any need for external power
- supplies, or printer cables, or 1000 block files at 9600 baud! You can
- already do it with TCP/IP, and Novell workstations are doing it with IPX.
- But DEC, who've been using distributed printing for years, getting the
- data to the terminal server at ethernet speeds, are still pushing the
- data through a 9600 baud bottleneck to the printer.
-
- If PathWorks 5.0 lets Novell workstations print to VMS queues, then you'll
- get a very clear choice. Easy distributed print queue setup and management,
- with 9600 baud bottlenecks, or Novells distributed/remote printing, with
- it's potential headaches, but ethernet speeds to the printer. You pays
- you money, and you takes your choice....
-
- > Glen Larwill, Network Technician,
- > Calgary Board of Education
- > Internet: netmgr02@cbe.ab.ca
- Aengus
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- RBYAML@ROHMHAAS.COM Aengus Lawlor
- RBYAML@ROHVM1.BITNET (who used to be ALAWLOR@DIT.IE)
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