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From: dill3360@neptune.uucp (Tom Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How did they make the printer so cheap?
Summary: cat postscript file>/dev/printer2
Message-ID: <6958@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 20 Oct 88 05:01:10 GMT
References: <5807@zodiac.UUCP> <7049@ut-emx.UUCP>
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Reply-To: dill3360@neptune.oce.orst.edu (Kean Stump)
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Organization: College of Oceanography, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, Or.
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In article <7049@ut-emx.UUCP> nghiem@ut-emx.UUCP (nghiem) writes:
>Your absolutely correct. The NeXT CPU controls the printer. A Business
>Week article (this weeks) says that it was meant to keep the price of
>the printer down. But, it also means that only the NeXT printer can be
>used with the machine at the moment.
>nghiem@emx.utexas.edu

Right. You have two serial ports on the cube; the cube runs mach; mach
supports I/O redirection.  Therefore, if you have a postscript file and
a non-NeXT serial postscript printer, you can print postscript.  Maybe 
not very fast, but you can do it.  And you'll have to show me a postscript
speaking printer for <$2000 to get me to do it too(unless you have one
laying around 8})

kean
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Oregon State University                           Kean Stump
College of Oceanography "Cruise Support"          kean@cs.orst.edu 
"Where's the floppy?"                            {tektronix,hp-pcd}!orstcs!kean
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