> Instead of us asking for something that HP says can't be
> done, why don't we ask
> for a suitable replacement for HP-IB based printing?  My vote
> is on HP writing a
> printer driver for the parallel port that is on the same card as the
> single-ended SCSI card.  The port works fine for UNIX-driven
> printers so it
> shouldn't be that tough to write a driver for MPE/iX-driven
> printers.  That way
> we're sticking with an industry-wide interface and getting
> full use of the
> add-on interface cards that we buy.  What do you think?

Sounds good, but first they'd have to write drivers to support that parallel
port; the parallel port, such as on the 28642A (?) card, is not and
apparently never has been supported by MPE (though I understand it is
supported under HPUX). IOMAP/ODE->Mapper can see it; if you configure it
into SYSGEN, you get an LLIO error at startup.


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