blarson@SKAT.USC.EDU (Bob Larson) (03/16/88)
The Prime supports Dataproducts parrallel, tcp/ip over 802.3 (eathernet),
and other protocols too slow to keep up with a 70 PPM printer.
The Xerox printer supports IBM bus and tag, XNS over eathernet, and
something propritary over syncronous serial lines. It is NOT
programmable, and I don't trust a company that can't get ASCII right
to do the correct thing on other standards.
Currently we have a similar situation with a Xerox 4050, and are using
an $18000 SPUR box to convert Dataproducts parrellel to IBM bus and
tag. (802.3 was not available on the Prime at the time the purchase
was made.)
Eathernet is the way things are going here on campus. Would it be
possible and cost effective to get something like a Sun to do the
tcp/ip to xns protocol conversion? Bonus: would it be possible to have
this used by more than one Prime?
We need the solution when we move into a new building, scheduled for
October. (The 8700 is in use by another department till then.) It
would be possible to write an XNS driver for the Prime, but I just
don't have time.
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