Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:19552 alt.flame:1995 Path: utzoo!utgpu!utfyzx!sq!geac!mnetor!cxsea!ssc-vax!uw-beaver!teknowledge-vaxc!sri-unix!amdahl!apple!voder!tolerant!oliveb!ames!hc!lll-winken!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,alt.flame Subject: ports Message-ID: <3871@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 31 May 88 20:29:55 GMT Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Alfonso di Credenza) Followup-To: alt.flame Organization: Ray Frank Vitamin Extraction Facility Lines: 27 >In article <1903@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >|Personally I'd be happy to give up my parallel port for another serial port. >|Parallel printers are a historical dreg that has no technical justification. Jeesus Peter are you really as closed minded as you seem ? Besides being plain wrong about lack of "Technical justification" somtimes you dont have a choice (for whatever reason) of interfaces. My Postscript printer is serial, my color ink jet is parallel. Now, yes, that seems backwards to me too, but when they gave me this beast I didn't say: "fuck you, i aint taking no serial postscript printer, go get me a parallel one". Nor when i was able to buy a color inkjet for $199 did I say: "whoah! that puppy is PARALLEL fer gods sake, there is no technical justification for that, I'll go out and spend a couple of thou on a technically justified printer" I mean really. P.S. Don't bother sending another one of your insipid flames, the last three had no effect. -- noalias went. it really wasn't negotiable richard@gryphon.CTS.COM rutgers!marque!gryphon!richard