From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 10 19:58:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop1pub.verizon.net (smtppop1pub.gte.net [206.46.170.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EBBE37B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 19:58:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from res03db2@gte.net) Received: from gte.net (evrtwa1-ar4-4-34-145-186.evrtwa1.dsl.gtei.net [4.34.145.186]) by smtppop1pub.verizon.net with ESMTP ; id VAA99996365 Thu, 10 May 2001 21:51:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from res03db2@localhost) by gte.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA05609; Thu, 10 May 2001 19:59:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from res03db2@gte.net) Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:59:34 -0700 From: Robert Clark To: j mckitrick Cc: Brad Knowles , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: workstation application question Message-ID: <20010510195934.A5593@darkstar.gte.net> References: <20010510145706.B92417@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010510181529.A97681@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20010510181529.A97681@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:15:29PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The Xerox printers in question aren't cheap to begin with. On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:15:29PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message