SkyOS Gets Printing Support
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Sep 2006 14:52 UTC, submitted by Lakedaemon
SkyOS SkyOS has gotten printing support using CUPS. "With the Printer Configuration it is now very easy to add and manage your printers, be it locally connected (USB) or network (Windows, Linux, Samba, IPP) printers. The entire printing system is implemented as a service (like most other SkyOS Subsystems), which can easily be enabled/disabled on demand. With roughly 1000 supported printers the next SkyOS build will enable you to print your favorite documents in various formats."
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RE[3]: SkyOS?
by mallard on Thu 21st Sep 2006 21:01 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: SkyOS?"
mallard
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2006-01-06

>I think his point is directed more at the fact that they're actually selling it with its rather limited featureset.

MS sold DOS, and SkyOS is cheaper and more featureful.

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RE[4]: SkyOS?
by bytecoder on Thu 21st Sep 2006 21:22 in reply to "RE[3]: SkyOS?"
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2005-11-27

DOS was featureful compared to the OSes, or lack thereof, on old mainframes from the 50s and 60s.

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RE[5]: SkyOS?
by dylansmrjones on Thu 21st Sep 2006 22:48 in reply to "RE[4]: SkyOS?"
dylansmrjones Member since:
2005-10-02

Yup. And SkyOS is more featureful than those AND msdos combined ;)

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RE[5]: SkyOS?
by sbergman27 on Thu 21st Sep 2006 23:32 in reply to "RE[4]: SkyOS?"
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2005-07-24

"""DOS was featureful compared to the OSes, or lack thereof, on old mainframes from the 50s and 60s."""

IBM was shipping VM in 1966. Don't let the green screens fool you. It was the UI that was primitive in the 60's. Not the mainframe OS technologies.

In some ways, like virtualization, PC's running "modern" OSes are just catching up.

With Multics, in the event that a memory cabinet needed to be serviced, processes using memory in it could be migrated to another memory cabinet, so that the first could be taken off line. Can you yank a stick of memory out of your PC in 2006 without crashing your OS?

Edited 2006-09-21 23:39

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