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From: ed@qtc.UUCP (Ed Lisle)
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Subject: MacIntosh in a real environment ?
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Date: 13 Nov 86 15:51:28 GMT
Organization: Quantitative Technology Corp., Beaverton, OR
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Keywords: MacIntosh, Laser printers


I am curious how a Macintosh can be used in a real office environment
for both administrative and engineering purposes, primarily for laser
printing.   Here's my problem.

I have a VAX 780 running VMS, Balance 8000 running Dynix (Unix BSD/SYSV),
and IBM PC (DOS/Xenix).  Everything is on Ethernet with TCP/IP.  I'm
currently looking for a laser printer in which every one can use and
share.  I would prefer to place the laser printer on the VAX or Balance
or directly on the Ethernet.

Having a Macintosh to do the fancy stuff would be neat but is there
software/hardware out there to make use of other laser printers
on another host.  How painful is this for the user?  We have used
MacDraw a few times which seemed to fit our needs, although we could
use something a bit better.

It would be great if the Unix engineers could use nroff/troff,
VMS users could use runoff, and Macintosh could be used for all the
graphics and everything else or am I barking up the wrong path ?


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        |  Ed Lisle                             |   ogcvax!          |
        |  Quantitative Technology Corporation  |   verdix!  qtc!ed  |
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