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From: mic@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Mic Lacey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Spooling
Summary: All this stuff is still too expensive
Keywords: 340, 300, printers, plotters
Message-ID: <2753@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 89 02:14:20 GMT
Reply-To: mic@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Mic Lacey)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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I am looking into getting two 340C+ workstations to run some of the Ideas 
MCAE (CAD) software from SDRC.  I have an HP D size plotter, an hp A/B size
plotter, Hayse 1200 baud modem, and an epson LQ1000 printer avialible to me if
I can use them.  My problem is that according to the "HP 9000 HP-UX Operating 
System" pamplet "only the cluster servers can support spooled peripherals".
Unfortunately the 340 has only one serial port and I am told that I can not put 
both a 4-port rs-232 mux card and a high speed disk interface (either HP-IB 
or SCSI) in the 340.  I would like to put the mux card on the workstation I 
plan on  using as a diskless node, but then I run into the problem with 
spooled periphs off a diskless node.

I also have an hp310 which has its own 55Meg disk and free DIO slots, but
no lan card, and it is running hp-ux 5.0, which didn't include ns-arpa or
nfs when we got it (a few years ago).

Now I don't care if I hook the 310 into the 340's, but I do need to hook the
printer and at least one plotter into the 340's (and I can not use hp-ib to
talk to the plotters).  AND I got to do this cheaply, I am already planing
on spending a little more than has been aproved.

Any insights would be greatly appreciated. thanx.

	Mic@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (128.153.12.3)