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- From: mitton@dave.lkg.dec.com (Dave Mitton)
- Subject: RE: LAT Parallel Print Servers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.181733.4752@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Reply-To: mitton@dave.lkg.dec.com (Dave Mitton)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Littleton MA
- References: <01GSL0E92C0W8ZEEL4@CBE.AB.CA> <92357.085301RBYAML@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:17:33 GMT
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- In article <92357.085301RBYAML@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>, Aengus Lawlor <RBYAML@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com> writes:
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:53:01 EST
- From: Aengus Lawlor <RBYAML@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
- Subject: RE: LAT Parallel Print Servers
-
- ..<stuff deleted>
- >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.
-
- Excuse me, but only serial port and 3rd party products need be connected
- by terminal servers.
-
- The Digital products for network printing are the PrintServer series
- (LPS40,LPS20) of printers. Both directly connect to the Ethernet and use
- DECnet and TCP/IP protocols. The LPS40 has been around for years.
-
- I remember seeing an item somewhere that some third party has developed
- a plug in for an HP network printer that understands Digital protocols,
- but I cannot find the name or details.
-
- Dave Mitton
- Networks and Communications
-
- >Aengus
- >--
- >RBYAML@ROHMHAAS.COM Aengus Lawlor
- >RBYAML@ROHVM1.BITNET (who used to be ALAWLOR@DIT.IE)
- >"How about some of that famous Dublin wit, Barman?"
- >"Certainly, sir. Would that be Dry or Sparkling?"
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