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From: cyliax@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Laser Printers and the ST
Message-ID: <1677@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 88 14:26:20 GMT
References: <8802021704.AA24124@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <324@bnl.ARPA>
Reply-To: cyliax@ea.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (Ingo Cyliax)
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In article <324@bnl.ARPA> drs@bnl.UUCP (David R. Stampf) writes:
>In article <8802021704.AA24124@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> GASPARD@HROEUR5.BITNET writes:
>>But let me ask you same questions:
>>
>>Do you have a 'GDOS'-printerdriver for the AST-turbo-laser?
>
>Who cares - I haven't seen GDOS out of atari yet and I won't spend $2000 to 
>get it.

GDOS comes with ATHENA II from Iliad Inc., ATHENA II is a CAD program,
and it uses GDOS for it's output to different graphics devices. They have
some drivers for things like FX-80's and such, but they don't have any laser
drivers...  I would love to get my hands on some more info about GDOS,
like how to write device drivers and the like. Ultimately, I would like
to have a driver for Postscript Printers so I can run stuff off on a
variety of Lasers. So, as soon as I find out more about GDOS, I could
get started on writing some device drivers, which I would probably
make available to anyone who wants them.

B.T.W., ATHENA II is a pretty decsend CAD program for the price, 
it's only drawback is that there aren't too many drivers available for 
hardcopy devices. It's not as good as some of the packages available
for PC's, but then it's also a lot more inexpensive.

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