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From: tanner@ki4pv.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Fast parallel driver for Unix/Xenix AT?
Summary: a smart para board would make life better for computer users
Message-ID: <7135@ki4pv.uucp>
Date: 6 Dec 89 23:41:43 GMT
References: <256ADBB5.19093@ateng.com> <289@marvin.moncam.co.uk> <256@bahamut.fsc.com>
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In article <256@bahamut.fsc.com>, jim@bahamut.fsc.com (James O'Connor) writes:
) My proposed solution is different from Chip's though.  I don't want
) to see new drivers for old boards, I'd like to see some bright, young
) engineer come up with a new board.
My wish list is a little simpler.  I'd settle for a couple of
one-port para boards if they had some smarts.  I hate like taxes
to pay an interrupt per character with troff heading to a laser
printer.  I even find it bad to pay to drive a lousy dot matrix
printer with my listings, and my fast dot matrix printer is still
in the shop.

Boss reports that he can't find out about any "smart" para boards.
I think even he realizes that it'd pay for itself in a few months.

Surely some enterprising company will invent such a beast, and
will perhaps be good enough to inform me of their products.  (If
you work for such a company, examine the "X-snail" header of this
article or send e-mail.)
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