Submission for Unix-PC
Jim Sanchez
syteke!jim at relay.EU.net
Fri Nov 24 17:22:11 AEST 1989
I have a NEC 890 on my system and could not be happier with it. It
emulates a Diablo 630, HP Laserjet of course postscript. The newer
models also do HPGL (plotter) emulation as well I think. The toner
cartridges are cheap ~$25 and last a good while and the "guts"
cartridge is no more expensive that any of the others. It also has a
parallel, serial, and appletalk interfaces which means you can hook it
up to whatever you have. The HP emulation is perfect as best as I can
tell and even runs the compatibility suite posted to the net a few
months ago.
I am using a ditroff package with postscript postprocessor which came
as part of a "software bundle" from what is now Discovery Electronics.
It also included emacs, a c interpreter, rdb, and troff for $295 I
think. I don't use any of the other stuff just the ditroff but it
works pretty well. The PIC package is a bit brain damaged and there
is no grap but eqn and tbl work fine. I would buy eroff if I had it
to do over however.
To summarize, if you have the $$ then this is a fine product which has
worked perfectly for me with zero problems.
Cheers
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Jim Sanchez {sun,hplabs}!sytek!syteke!jim OR
Hughes LAN Systems, Brussels uunet!prlb2!sunbim!syteke!jim
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