This doesn't work on Windows XP, though, it keeps on echoing whatever I type when I press ENTER, and doesn't show the modem response, nor does the modem seem to react to it (pressing ATDTxxxxx doesn't dial the number, otherwise I should hear the dial tone from the modem speaker), . When I press Ctrl-C to terminate it says

"The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request."

However, this reminds me of the first time I made my modem dial a number using Pascal by writing AT commands to its port. And also my first time using TERM95 (a terminal utility that comes with Norton Commander, any one still remember?) to dial to my friend's place and share my files. It was pretty slow and also cost a lot as we forget to disconnect the line afterwards...

 

I wouldn't believe the difference would be as large as you say. I'd rather pay £150 for a laser printer that prints faster, especially for larger print jobs.

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It's not going to be that cheap, essentially you're adding a PC inside the printer, a laser printer has always needed considerable processing power and lot's of memory.

Admittedly some of the huge reduction in prices has come from making them cheaper, but much is down to moving most of the processing and memory from the printer to the PC.

Assuming you could find such a printer these days?, it's likely to be a fairly high-end one, with a suitable high price.

One source might be postscript printers?, which accept an ASCII text description file and generate the page accordingly?.

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