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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Steve.Withers
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 4
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:42:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.004247.609@actrix.gen.nz>
- References: <1992Nov14.095433.29319@actrix.gen.nz> <+7D=JC_@engin.umich.edu>
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <+7D=JC_@engin.umich.edu> seths@schroedinger.engin.umich.edu (seth raynard silverman) writes:
- > Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- > : In article <1992Nov12.011155.20135@midway.uchicago.edu> jhrv@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- > : > In article <BxK182.GA8@access.digex.com> gary@access.digex.com (Gary L. Bobzien) writes:
- > : >
- > : > [nothing]
- > : >
- > : > OK, so let me give it a shot. Does anybody know if/when HP LaserJet
- > : > IV drivers will be released for OS/2? (I already called HP---they
- > : > don't have it)
- > : >
- > : > John
- > : >
- > :
- > : Most hardware vendors write the drivers for major software products. However,
- > : HP's market dominance causes them to expect software vendors to write thier
- > : own drivers. Even Microsoft had to write their own drivers for the HPLJ4 (they
- > : were late....:-))
- >
- > Actually, HP has been writing both the Windows and the OS/2 LaserJet printer
- > drivers for quite some time (including the current LJ4 Windows driver).
- > :
- > : So.....IBM will have to write these drivers. HP couldn't care less......they
- > : are a pretty arrogant crowd.
- > :
- >
- > I am pretty sure that HP intends on releasing a LaserJet printer driver with
- > support for the LJ4.
- >
- > Seth Silverman
- >
- > seths@eecs.umich.edu
-
- The HP rep here in Wellington - David MacLeod - told me the exact opposite.
- How can we reconcile these diametrically opposed pieces of information?
-
- Steve
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