11 Sep
2007
11 Sep
'07
9:39 p.m.
Some of the more recent Xerox color copiers/printers (ok, 10 ish years ago)
were SCSI based, and came with a "rendering engine" that was a headless
Sparc server.
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On Behalf Of John Foust
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At 08:37 AM 9/11/2007, Liam Proven wrote:
Wow! A SCSI *printer*?! What on Earth is that?
It wasn't a odd choice in pre-USB, pre-Firewire prehistory. If you
need to move lots of data to a raster printer, SCSI was an option.
- John