From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 10 10:15:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5FA037B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14xu2E-0004p6-00; Thu, 10 May 2001 18:15:30 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4AHFTA97748; Thu, 10 May 2001 18:15:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:15:29 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Brad Knowles Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: workstation application question Message-ID: <20010510181529.A97681@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010510145706.B92417@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:00:43PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:00:43PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: | 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 So if you buy a Xerox printer, you have to pay for a sun workstation as well? That seems kind of odd, not to mention expensive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message