From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 10 9:20: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from riker.skynet.be (riker.skynet.be [195.238.3.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18EA037B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 09:20:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [194.78.241.123] ([194.78.241.123]) by riker.skynet.be (8.11.2/8.11.2/Skynet-OUT-2.11) with ESMTP id f4AGHo126000; Thu, 10 May 2001 18:17:51 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010510145706.B92417@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010510145706.B92417@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:00:43 +0200 To: j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: workstation application question Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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, /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message