On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 12:05 PM, Robyn Lyons wrote: > That is a good reason, keep in mind though that the Beige G3 is > supported and it has serial ports. The question to ask is, why doesn't > OSX support the serial ports on the Beige G3?
"supported" <> "all features of the system supported" OSX is built for new Macs...that the Beige G3's are supported is gravy. New macs have not come with serial ports for years, so there was no good reason for Apple to re-engineer Unix to support serial printers. That said, were someone willing to do the work, a serial printer driver for OSX is entirely possible, since OSX 10.2 supports CUPS, a standard printing technology. Serial port drivers *do* exist for Unix, so undoubtedly something could be bodged together /dev contains tty.modem and tty.printer...those are tty device drivers for those two ports, I expect. There is also cu.modem and cu.printer there too. > -- "Wherever you go, there you are." - B. Banzai, Ph.D. Bruce Johnson -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
