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Xref: sserve comp.org.usenix:3294 comp.unix.bsd:11665 comp.org.sug:675 comp.os.386bsd.misc:95 Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.org.sug,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: How to vote on POSIX Printing Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1993 00:58:49 GMT Message-ID: <C3p9E2.6xy@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <1993Mar10.025832.17665@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <WCS.93Mar9232624@rainier.ATT.COM> <1993Mar10.172755.27350@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Lines: 27 In article <1993Mar10.172755.27350@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > Ever use a NeXT machine and picked a printer from a list of printers as a > user and had the whole thing "just work"? THAT'S what an API buys you. No it isn't. That has nothing to do with there being an "API". That has to do with having interfaces (in general) properly defined, and used. That has to do with having a single organization building the whole thing from scratch. Homogenous systems properly designed *do* tend to work better. They have a simpler problem to solve. The Amiga has the same facility, as does the Mac. The Amiga API is totally useless for a shared printer environment, but the *drivers* would work perfectly well in that environment because the *driver* interface is well defined. For the areas Palladium is targeted, a good networking interface (as opposed to a poor one, like the BSD one) is more important. From my reading of the Palladium documents, it doesn't have one... in fact it assumes NFS or an equivalent for most of the interfaces (plural) it defines. I don't think Palladium is worse than lpr or lp, I just really don't think it's any better. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.