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In article <3292B356.1631@gil.com.au> Peter Arnold <auscad@gil.com.au> writes:

   I have found an old SPARCprinter (circa 1991) c/w cable, manuals &
   possibly sbus card.

   Does anybody know where I can get a copy of newsprint software to run on
   solaris 2?

There is a version of NeWSprint for Solaris. Sorry I don't know the
version number.

   Can I get the drivers for the sbus card anywhere?
   and at least get the parallel port going?

The device driver for the parallel port (bpp) is integrated into
releases since 4.1.3, since that release supported machines
with on-board bpp devices (such as the SS10). The hardware on
the HIOD card with the SPARCprinter is almost identical
with the onboard hardware, and they use the same device driver.
All versions of Solaris have the bpp driver included.

To get a version of the device driver for the special port to
speak to the SPARCprinter (the lpvi driver) you probably have
to buy NeWSprint. (You absolutely had to when I left Sun in 1993).
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