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--- Comment #120 from Dieter Jurzitza <dieter.jurzitza@xxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-05-30 
17:55:07 UTC ---
Hi folks,
I think it is time to speak up now. I personally know five of the three
remaining users of parallel port driven printers on linux computers.

I do not know where you are taking the guesses about the remaining userbase of
parallel printers from - similar to the folks from cups maintenance simply
dropping parallel printer support.

Sad to say that modern architectures keep creating issues on linux - what is
very understandable - but less modern ones start to behave in a similar way
:-(.

Just my two cents, but your guesses about the userbase may be right for servers
- but I bet there are still many users of I.e. good old laser printers with
parallel ports - and besides the fading support in each and every OS (why the
heck not load lp.ko by default? Who is heart by say 25kByte of wasted memory
space? I haven't got an answer on this until now ....) there is no good reason
to put them out of operation.

Take care




Dieter Jurzitza

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