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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Printer Support
Summary: Is it still a Macintosh?
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Date: 30 Aug 88 04:54:20 GMT
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In article <16289@apple.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com.UUCP 
	(David Casseres) writes:
>...  Apple doesn't document that at present but it's
>rather well known in the folklore; anyone who has any kind of driver going
>knows all there is to know about that interface.
>

Fine, I'll put in my resume that I know all about Apple Computer
Company folklore.  That should get me a job real quick.  People are
suspicious of this interface precisely because it is not documented.
(It was once.)  The feeling is that Apple can, at any moment, release
the System Tools that will make ALL third party printer drivers go
belly up.  We don't know how or why you would choose to do this, but
we know you can, and that is not a real good feeling to have if you
want to market a product that depends on this interface.

>...the exact way to implement one of those calls for a new driver
>is often something that needs to be negotiated by the developer with the
>developers of the other drivers, and the MultiFinder people, and the Print-
>Monitor people, and the Toolbox people, and even the people working on the
>next two or three operating systems for future CPUs.

What are you people planning on doing?  I am just dying to know!

How much can the System change, and this box in front of me still be
considered a Macintosh?  I think we need another Compatibility
Technote, and real soon!

Earle R. Horton. 23 Fletcher Circle, Hanover, NH 03755
(603) 643-4109
Email address expires soon, but try my wife: maxine@eleazar.dartmouth.edu.