From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie question on printing
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507261004530.5910@enigma.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e35c0620507260846710ec8cc@mail.gmail.com>
I still think the one thing Windows really nailed is printing. Browse for
a print server. Find the printer by name. Oh, server says, you don't have
a driver? Here's one from the print server. Done. You're up. None of this
browsing of an out-of-date pile of files to find the printer that almost,
but not quite, matches the printer.
Overall, I've never used anything I like quite as much as that. Not even
OSX can compare -- OSX is just about as painful as any standard Unix for
adding a new printer.
I'm sure that, being Windows, there are lots of flaws and holes, but
overall it's less painful than anything else I've seen.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-26 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-26 10:29 Robert Raschke
2005-07-26 10:57 ` Steve Simon
2005-07-26 11:05 ` Russ Cox
2005-07-26 11:33 ` Robert Raschke
2005-07-26 12:06 ` Russ Cox
2005-07-26 15:46 ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-26 15:59 ` Russ Cox
2005-07-26 16:07 ` Ronald G. Minnich [this message]
2005-07-26 16:35 ` Jim McKie
2005-07-26 16:55 ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-26 17:28 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-26 18:49 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-07-26 16:44 ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-26 11:03 ` Russ Cox
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