laser-lovers@uw-beaver (01/19/85)
From: Michael_D'Alessandro%Wayne-MTS%UMich-MTS.Mailnet@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
(Disclaimer: I am currently a Unix novice, so please excuse
any mistakes in the following)
We will soon be acquiring Eunice for our 11/780 which is
running VMS 3.4. Eunice is a BSD 4.1 Unix overlay that
sits on top of VMS. We are going to use nroff and troff
on Eunice for document preparation, and we are looking
for a suitable output device for troff output. Currently,
we have a DEC LN01 laser printer (which is really a Xerox 2700).
My questions are:
1) Can we obtain additional fonts for the LN01 so that it
is a decent troff output device and it can do Greek and
mathematical symbols, etc.? How much would such fonts cost?
Who could we buy them from? DEC? Xerox?
2) Can we upgrade our LN01 to an LN01S (which is really a QMS
Lasergrafix), and is the LN01S a suitable troff output device?
3) Would it perhaps be better to forget about upgrading the
LN01 and instead get another laser printer to use as a dedicated
troff output device, such as a HP Laserjet or an Imagen?
Is an Imagen a good troff output device?
I'm open to all suggestions, as we are fairly free to choose
which way we want to go with this.
Michael D'Alessandro
Dept. of Computer Science
Wayne State University
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