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- From: vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp)
- Subject: Re: net.views - mainframe programmers in an open systems world
- Message-ID: <vanepp.721068918@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Nov03.145701.22033@utoday.com> <1992Nov3.221543.26133@coe.montana.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:55:18 GMT
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- osycs@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Craig Spannring) writes:
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- >Does this strike anyone else as the dumbest question they've asked
- >yet? I can hardly wait for next month's question, "Do mainframe
- >printers have a place in open environments?"
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- While I expect you meant this as a joke, we are running a Xerox product
- called Soliel with our "mainframe" Xerox 4090 printer that uses a Sun Sparc
- to take ASCII and PostScript jobs from our TCP/IP network and UNIX hosts
- that replaced the mainframe and print them (with more than a few problems
- I will admit) on the 4090 so this isn't an unreasonable question ...
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- Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
- Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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