Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT & Macintosh Message-ID: <52943@brunix.UUCP> Date: 12 Oct 90 02:16:09 GMT References: <1990Sep26.131604.4013@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov> <51568@brunix.UUCP> <875@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 36 In article simon@cs.ualberta.ca (Simon Tortike) writes: >eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes: > >>In article <51568@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes: >>>In article <1990Sep26.131604.4013@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov>, >>> alandail@applelink.apple.com writes: >>>|> Is it possible to do any of the following: >>>|> connect a LaserWriter II SC to a NeXT >>>yes > >Along the same lines, can I connect a LaserWriter II NT to a NeXTstation? If >so, must I use the RS232 connection---and then is it easy to get the right >cable? Or would it be better to buy router software for the Mac, hook up >the LaserWriter on AppleTalk, and access the printer via the ethernet from >the NeXT (the Mac having an ethernet card)? Two things: First I was wrong stating that the LaserWriter II SC can be connected to a NeXT. I overlooked the SC and thus thought that it was a PostScript printer. This is not the case and it would take quite some hacking to use the SC with a NeXT. Second, the NT CAN be connected to the NeXT. But if you have the option to go with the ethernet, you probably want to do this. I don't know the exact datatransfer rates of apple-talk, but they probably higher than the 19200 baud you get from the serial connection. So data transfers should be faster over the ethernet than over the serial line. This is especially important when you print files with bitmaps in them. The disadvantage is, that the more hard- and software is in volved in a certain setup, the easier it is to get into trouble... Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet