Re: impress, postscript printers

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From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Mon, 18 May 1987 20:54

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From: hoptoad!gnu@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (John Gilmore)
Date: 18 May 87 07:49:26 GMT
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco

From: hi!cyrus@hc.dspo.gov (Tait Cyrus)
> When is someone going to make a postscript printer that sits on
> the ethernet?

As I understand it, DEC has already done so, but in usual fashion
they failed to clear their holster before pulling the trigger.
The thing only talks DECNET protocols and is therefore useless to the
general market.  Hmm, DEC's terminal server is the same way.  Is
this just ingrained stupidity or is there a Secret Plan there somewhere?
I doubt anybody's going to convert to VMS or DECNET just to buy their
laser printer.
-- 
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