[net.micro.mac] Laserwriter input ports

joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) (12/27/85)

When the Apple Laserwriter came out, I heard it was smart enough
to know when to take input from the DB9 or DB25.  Thus, you could
share it between your Mac and those horrible IBM folks.

Now we have one, and ... we have to share a Laserwriter between
and IBM PC and a Mac!!!   In particular, the IBM is currently using
the Lasewriter in Diablo emulation mode.

There seem to be several switch settings.  Is there one setting
under which the Laserwriter will dynamically select between

	DB25 Diablo emulation
	DB9 Appletalk Postscript

I am also curious if this is any better if the IBM PC is talking
Postscript over the DB25 at 9600 baud.  (Needless to say, if
I had an Appletalk card, they'd both use DB9 and funny coax).

I'm curious also what the Infoworld-promised speed improvements
on the Laserwriter will turn out to be.  Ours was purchased primarily
for speed and print quality reasons.

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