From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 16:15:36 PST
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 06:40:28PM -0500, Brian wrote:
> Actually, there's a little bit more involved. It's not just wiring, I
> think that if you just wired the connections you'd have big problems
> getting serial-to-parallel conversion without dataloss.
>
> The black "Newton" labelled PowerPrint (or PrintPack or whatever), have
> a embedded chip that includes drivers for the MP, when you hook up,
> these drivers are available automagically.
Don't forget that the Newton knows how to to styled (that is
graphic-based) text on an Imagewriter. That's not the same kind of
printing as to an Epson FX-80. It also knows how to speak Postscript to
talk to Laserwriters. Epson FX-80s don't speak that either.
It may be a simple hardware protocol change if every printer used the
same protocol to print images or shift from normal to bold type, but
that ain't the case, and never has been.
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