Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 09:05:57 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #12 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 16 Mar 92 Volume 5 : Issue 12 Today's Topics: cheap printer for SLC? Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #11 (disk space issues --ed) +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 18:38:42 EST From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) Subject: cheap printer for SLC? To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu smb@ulysses.att.com (Steve Bellovin) writes: >Subject: cheap printer for SLC? > >Howdy. I'm soliciting recommendations for cheap printers for >SLCs at home. . . ability to handle PostScript is essential. >Speed is not that important, and we can live with comparatively >low resolution. Can you get less than 300 dpi in a laserprinter? I use a HP IIP with PostScript cartridge and have been quite pleased. Yes, it has a wimpy processor. But with a 4PPM engine, the processor is rarely the bottleneck. It runs fine at 19.2k on ttyb on my IPC, can't speak for a SLC. On the whole I'm quite pleased. Yeah, grinding out those 200-page docs can take a while and you have to feed the paper bin every 100 sheets (20 minutes) or so. But it prints very clean, does nice transparencies, and has worked like a charm for over a year in my home on a dusty country road. If money is a big issue, rumor has it you can forget the PostScript cartridge and use GhostScript to translate to PCL (the HP native language). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 12:05:29 -0600 (CST) From: "Anthony A. Datri" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #11 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu >Either run SunView or find binary copy of X11 for the Sun-3, >and you'll get much better response. I agree. For those who don't have the disk space to build X11R5 for Sun 3's (poor guys), I'd be happy to send you a copy. >Be judicious about what you delete from the System V bin and libraries. I usually remove *.a. I don't need a static C RTL, and I sure don't need a profiled one. >Some things like vi have been ported to system v-ish versions or terminfo. The only one of which I'm aware is the 4.1+ vi, which uses 5lib/libc.sa.1.whatever. If you don't use vi, it's not a problem. >If anyone has a functioning Sun-100, I am prepared to make you famous. :-) Three years ago at a different employer, a Sun FE told me that the 100/150's often wound up being home machines for FE's. I believe that many of them have been upgraded to 68010's, creating a "Sun 1.5", which runs sun2 binaries. ======================================================8--< ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************