From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 16 07:09:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA15930 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 07:09:44 -0700 Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA15924 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 07:09:42 -0700 Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.252.21.73]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14540(4)>; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 07:09:00 PDT Received: from gnu.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24982; Fri, 16 Jun 95 10:08:50 EDT Received: by gnu.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14921; Fri, 16 Jun 95 10:12:28 EDT Message-Id: <9506161412.AA14921@gnu.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.1 5/23/95 To: Brian Tao Cc: Jaye Mathisen , Amancio Hasty , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printer recommendation? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Jun 1995 06:14:02 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 07:12:26 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk You don't need anything faster than a parallel port. The biggest bottleneck is normally the PS decomposer, not the network interface (you can also probably keep a printer busy with a 19.2kbaud serial line). But the problem is bidirectionality, if you want it...PS is inherently a bidrectional medium, and dropping the return data on the floor is a waste... (Does Freebsd support a bidirectional parallel port?) marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom