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From: brw@jim.odr.OZ.AU (Brian Wallis)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Apple LaserWriter Plus
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Date: 14 Jun 88 04:28:39 GMT
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I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to use both the
serial D25 connector and the appletalk connector on the LaserWriter at
the same time with the printer taking jobs from both ports? Or are
both ports on the same serial hardware (as I suspect they are).

If not, what is the cheapest way of using the laserwriter from both an
appletalk device (a Mac) and a serial device (a Vax running Ultrix
2.0). Is it possible to convince the Mac to send it's postscript out a
serial port into the vax and run a simple spooler from that port onto
the print queue, or is there a simple "Unix" to appletalk interface to
go the other way?

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