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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Some Random NeXT Thoughts
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Date: 14 Apr 89 14:11:07 GMT
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Sender: Ali T. Ozer <ali@polya.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <12017@ut-emx.UUCP> osborn@ut-emx.UUCP (John H. Osborn) writes:
>Is the $6500 price, so often quoted, deliberately misleading, or is
>my university (U-Texas at Austin) adding on to the base price for
>additional profit?

$6500 is the price NeXT charges; the campus organization(s) selling 
the machines usually add something on top of it. 

>Is there a way to share a NeXT printer among several machines on a network?
>Obviously, sending the raster image through ethernet would be too slow,
>but how about sending the postscript description to the cube driving the
>printer and having the raster image be generated there?

Yes; this functionality is handled via the standard Unix remote printing
mechanism.

>How nice is the support for other postscript printers?  I've heard the
>capability mentioned, but it has rarely been discussed here.

Other PS printers (such as Linotype, Apple LaserWriter, etc) are supported;
all you need is an appropriate printcap entry. The 0.8 WriteNow had
problems printing to non-NeXT printers, but that was a problem with
WriteNow, not the system.

Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support
aozer@NeXT.com