Subject: Re: LPS20 (a bit off topic)
To: NetBSD/vax Mailing List <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/29/2001 18:21:49
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Wolfgang Rupp wrote:
> On Monday 29 October 2001 21:30, you wrote:

> > I recently bought a DEC LPS20 printer through eBay
> > with little documentation. As I understand it the printer
> > contains a mVAX which net boots through mop protocol.
>
> Could it maybe run NetBSD and use itself as console?

Well, that'd certainly be interesting.  I wonder if we can port Xwindows
to a hardcopy display?  You'd kill a lot of trees for sure, but at the
end of the day you could take all the printouts to make flipbook
animations of all the work you did.

-brian.
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