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From: lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: 7 vits vs. 8 bits (again)
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Date: 5 Jul 90 18:10:02 GMT
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amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:

>Now, what I think
>would be ideal for higher-end stuff like Linos or Varitypers would be
>to use TCP/IP over Ethernet.

A great transport, but it still doesn't address the problem of what
protocol to run over it. Since I don't want Joe_Randomn_User dumping
jobs to the Linotron, you're going to need something that implements
reasonable amounts of security. Hooks for job accounting would also
be looked upon with favour.

If you invent a new protocol, no existing systems will speak it. Therefore
you are pretty well stuck distributing source for the printer driver. Given
wide variety of OSs you'll have to support, the code will have to be pretty
damned generic.

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