Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:00:43 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: workstation application question Message-ID: <p0510030ab7206b37eb8d@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <20010510145706.B92417@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010510145706.B92417@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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At 2:57 PM +0100 5/10/01, j mckitrick wrote:
> I just read recently that Xerox bought a Sun Blade for printer driver
> development. Why would they use a Sun instead of a PC?
Because all the new Xerox printers use Sun workstations as
controllers? I think that they started doing this a number of years
ago, back when they ported almost all of the Xerox desktop
applications over to SunOS from their proprietary OS that had been
developed in-house (starting with the work at PARC back in the 1960s).
I seem to vaguely recall administering a network of those bloody
Xerox boxes for the gov't many years ago, but for the life of me, now
I can't remember what they were called.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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