[ILUG] vmware pricing

[lbedford at wbtsystems.com]

On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 11:11:05AM +0000, Niall O Broin gave forth on:
> Liam Bedford said
> 
> > $300 is enough to get a machine without a monitor/keyboard/mouse and just with
> > a network card.. turn on smb networking and share the printer (you don't need
> > an Athlon to do that, a K6-2 300 with 32Mb ram and a 2.1Gb hard disk would do
> > ya)...
> 
> Yes if all you want to do is drive the Winprinter (though I wonder how they work
> when they're shared ? Usually the print client produces printer code e.g. Postscript,
> PCL or whatever, and network printing essentially consists of gathering up this code
> and shipping it off to a printserver which dribbles it out to the printer. What
> happens with a Winprinter then, where the interpretation of Postscript / PCL / whatever
> is performed by the PC's CPU ? Anyone know enough to comment ?) but if you need to
> sometimes run Windows apps. then you're in keyboard/mouse/monitor land, or maybe a
> switch, and you're back to the extra box on the table.
Hmm, the understanding I have of a winprinter is that the printing is done as usual,
to the printer driver, and from there the driver does the rasterising, and sends
raw data to the printer. As opposed to the printer understanding PCL, and the machine
sending PCL down to it.

However, IIRC, when 95 shares a printer, the connecting machine has to have a driver,
(95 basically just shares the port). NT however, shares the driver, and the local
machine doesn't do any work (just sends the data to be rasterised to the server).

(It could be the other way round though). For example at home, my windows machines
do all the driver work, and my linux box just shares the port.

L.
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