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From: sgt@alice.UucP (Steve Tell)
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Subject: Re: Printer drivers (Re: Tandycentricity)
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Date: Sun, 29-Dec-85 20:48:42 EST
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>Maybe UNIX has just spoiled me, but I don't see why the designers of
>TRSDOS or MS-DOS couldn't have allowed for printer drivers to be part
>of the operating system so that no program would have to know how to
>use a certain printer.  The communication between the programs and the
>printer drivers would be via a standard protocol (ala termcap) and all
>you would need is one driver for your printer and all programs, however
>obtained, would work with it.
>....
>Am I out of line here or what?

The Amiga Does!
The standard printer driver accepts one set of escape codes & such,
then converts them to whatever type of printer you specified with
the "preferences" setup utility.