Windows, std OS in Hell

From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela_at_ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri Nov 9 12:02:11 2001

> Nope, WFW3.11, Win95 and Win98 were designed as "small office / home
> operating systems" and were never given support for LPR protocol as you
> weren't expected to see that in a SOHO / Workgroup or Home setting. (In
> yet another previous incarnation I was a support tech for POS at Microsoft
> [Personal Operating Systems] )

I could have sworn I had set up Win95 machines with support for unix printers.
I don't recall that possibility in Win98, which seemed to ship with a reduced
driver set than Win95.

Eric
Received on Fri Nov 09 2001 - 12:02:11 GMT