Sharing a LGP2 with Suns

[Chris Lindblad <cjl%ai.mit.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>]

    Date: Thu, 10 Aug 89 08:31 CDT
    From: dmitchell@backus.trc.amoco.com (Donald H. Mitchell)

	Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 17:08:39 CDT
	From: dkirsche@shamash.cdc.com (Dan Kirschen - PLYOPS)

	I imagine that the following question has already been discussed, but being
	a recent addition to the slug mailing list, I need to ask it again.

	We are going to add a series of Sun 3/50 and SGI 400 on the same Ethernet as
	our Symbolics and would like to use the same laser printer.  What's the best
	solution and what do I need to implement it?

    Sure the question has been asked and rather inadequately answered;
    however, now that Symbolics has a Sun embed, maybe they'll have to
    really address this question!  I'd love to know the answer.

    BTW: the std answer that I got but have not implemented is to get the
    SLUG tape and Symbolics's LGP2 software.  What I would like to know is
    how a system that sells itself on being an integrated highly productive
    development platform can be missing print software!  It will sound real
    funny to my management if I go to them and say, "remember that highly
    integrated development system I bought that has the Lisp
    interpreter/compiler/editor/inspector/debugger/etc all standard and all
    working together, well it costs $2000 to get the software necessary to
    print any of the stuff out.  By the way, that's almost the cost of the
    Lisp interpreter/compiler/editor/inspector/debugger/etc on the Sun and
    the Sun includes the print software."

You can print on ascii printers with standard SunOS.

You can print on ascii printers with standard Genera.

You have to buy transcript to print postscript with SunOS.

You have to buy LGP3 to print postscript with Genera.