Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl
From: strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Windows/Mac flame war fuel
Message-ID: <2988@gmdzi.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 90 22:38:21 GMT
References: <8974@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany
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casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:

>In article <1990Jul2.191321.23971@portia.Stanford.EDU> 
>aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes:
>> In article <1990Jul1.125052.7037@kth.se> h+@nada.kth.se writes:
>> >About printer drivers: You drop them into the system folder.
>> >That's it. No configuring, no fuss.
>> 
>> Is this true for the non-Apple drivers as well (MacPrint)?  I mean, I'd
>> HOPE that Apple requires no configuration for its own printers...

>No configuration is required for any printer driver that supports Apple's 
>printing architecture.  Admittedly that architecture is largely 
>undocumented, but several companies have written successful drivers for 
>the Mac nonetheless.

This either implies that the printer driver can query the printer about
the resources (memory, fonts, resolution, paper size, ...) it has 
available - which is not possible on monodirectional links -, or it
restricts the printer driver to worst case asumptions.

Wolfgang Strobl