Semi-OT: Windows98 now truly obsolete thanks to Printers (helps encourage Linux)

[Monty J. Harder]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:

> (sits back and waits for the inevitable "standards printers are a better
> choice than driver-based printers" comment from someone... ;-) )
>

Close.  REAL printers are better than Winprinters.  If all I want to print
is monospaced text, I should be able to send the ASCII for that text to the
printer.  I'm even willing to prepend carriage returns to line feeds along
the way, if the printer is configured that way (but I also want to be able
to configure that on the printer itself).  However, the idea that it's
necessary to have a "driver" to paint the picture of that text with graphics
primitives seems ridiculous.  Computing devices ought to be ISO 646
compliant, without any fancy footwork on the other end of a communications
channel.
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