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Xref: sserve comp.org.usenix:3306 comp.unix.bsd:11696 comp.org.sug:681 comp.os.386bsd.misc:117 Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.org.sug,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!john From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) Subject: Re: How to vote on POSIX Printing Message-ID: <C48xKo.IzK@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA References: <C36JrI.E8K@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <C3CKCp.CFw@world.std.com> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1993 15:55:36 GMT Lines: 36 geer@world.std.com (Dan Geer) writes: }atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes: }> A few weeks back, during USENIX in fact, there was much discussion }>on the net of the POSIX intent to standardise the not widely used }>printing mechanisms defined by the Palladium system as the standard }>UNIX printing commands. }> }> Palladium was at one time widely installed at MIT, but large }>portions of MIT removed it because Palladium was unusable. ... }This thumbnail history is seriously revisionist, ... }If you care to vote on this matter, I would suggest you take }further care than depending on this poster's guidance. I agree. }I, for one, strongly recommend a favorable vote, ... Here, I disagree strongly. Our site is a `spin-off' of MIT's Project Athena (and we are now larger in some ways), and we took a serious look at Palladium before deciding it was not for us. We also decided that "basic" lpr was not right for us (we are using a locally written distributed system which looks like lpr/lpq/... on the outside for our ~225 printers of ~40 different types). I would suggest the reader take neither Dan Geer's nor my advice, but get a copy of MIT's palladium documents and make your own informed choice. John -- John Hascall ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.'' Systems Software Engineer Project Vincent Iowa State University Computation Center + Ames, IA 50011 + 515/294-9551