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From: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Scanjet Scanner on HP-UX?
Message-ID: <1462@zen.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 09:43:44 GMT
References: <1141@csuchico.EDU> <12173@cup.portal.com> <1460@zen.UUCP> <12538@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England
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In article <12538@cup.portal.com> Howeird@cup.portal.com (Howard Gary Stateman) writes:
>HP-IB would not have been an intelligent interface to choose
>for the HP Scanjet, since it will not work in a non-HP
>PC or a Mac, the two largest users of DTP.

Thank you.

HP had to provide *special* interface boards (and driver software) for each of
these machines so that they could communicate with the scanner.

My point is that if they had used HP-IB (IEEE-488) instead, every one who own
an HP computer with HP-IB could have used the scanner as well.

		vic