8 Jun
2004
8 Jun
'04
5:43 a.m.
Hi,
Jochen Kunz <jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> said:
On Mon, 7 Jun 04 17:20:34 PDT
msokolov(a)ivan.harhan.org (Michael Sokolov) wrote:
There are "print servers". Litle boxes
with a Centronics parallel port
on one side and Ethernet on the other side. Much like a terminal server.
Most of them talk TCP/IP and the BSD LPR/LPD network protocol, so it is
trivial to interface them to a VAX running BSD UNIX.
Or perhaps even cheaper, any old PC, 386 up, a network card, and a copy
of FreeSCO*. A very cut-down Linux. Boots off the floppy, runs
entirely in RAM if you have 16+Mb and needs no hard disk. I use it as
a print server running on a junk 486 someone gave me.
* Named for Free (CI)SCO - not SCO!
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
I have it
connected to my PC with a standard printer cable.
Well, that won't work for me
since I don't use pee seas.