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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: How to vote on POSIX Printing
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 01:59:16 GMT
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In article <DUKE.93Mar1134042@portal.osf.org> duke@osf.org (Duke Robillard) writes:
> In article <C37Kwn.Hx5@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>    Actually, Palladium (based on the papers I FTP-ed on the subject) appears
>    to be a derived at least in the design from Berkeley "lpr". 

> I don't believe that's really true.  It's a client-server system, so
> it has that in common with lpr, but it was all re-done from scratch.

It was redone to a spec, and that spec was clearly based on the facilities
provided by lpr.

>    and only slightly improves its extensibility in the area of file formats
>    and conversions. 

> Well, not really.  There is tremendously more flexibility in Palladium
> than in lpr.

A bit more, not that much. It's got a lot better control, but you can't
(for example) use it to batch compiles and ship the resulting code back,
without a lot of work.

> It's much, much bigger.

Well, that's true, but largely irrelevant. Size by itself has a negative
value.

>    It seems mainly of interest to very large networks that are
>    more-or-less homogenous. 

> If by "homogenous" you mean "POSIX-compliant" then I agree.

No, by "homogenous" I mean something like Athena, with at most a few versions
of the same operating system.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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