[Coco] Printing on a Coco with modern printers.

[James Jones]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> DriveWire provides the standard /P device in OS9.  Since it emulates a
> printer that software already knows how to print to (epson fx80), this
> means all OS9 software works unchanged.  There is no need to rewrite
> anything for OS9 software, and it all works right now.
>
>
I'm somewhat surprised by this. The Epson MX-80 and its descendants were
certainly popular then, but to the best of my knowledge, printing anything
other than plain old text was left to individual programs under OS-9, and
if everybody agreed to use Epson escape codes I'm not aware of it.

James