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Dear Felix,

I might recommend the world's simplest and cheapest network for sharing
a postscript laser printer between a PC and a mac.  If you get a printer
that supports parallel, serial and appletalk inputs (many do), hook up
the pc to the parallel port and the mac to the appletalk port and use
the configuration switch on the printer for selection.  Better yet, make
sure  that the printer accepts port selection by a postscript file and
you can send a batch command file from one computer to configure for the
other.  The only complication is with the mac where you will have to use
an application such as the adobe font loader to send the raw postscript
port configuration file to the printer (so that it is interpreted as 
postscript rather than as a file to print).

Good luck... nate liskov     nate@lcs.mit.edu