Ah, for the days of CPM, when if you bought a printer or terminal (there 
wasn't mice, plug in keyboards and monitors) and had to modify the bios 
for such mundane operations as clear screen, line feed, etc. Things were 
nice straight forward, there was aa jump table that took you to the 
driver, a little assembly work, code it in hex (adecimal), and write it 
to a 8" floppy, and if you could afford it, the Mitsubishi double sided, 
double density gave you 1024k.( Think it was k and not m) ~)

Forrest W Christian wrote:
> It's really sad when the drivers take many many many many many times the 
> space that an entire word processing (heck even a good desktop 
> publishing) app used to take, INCLUDING the printer drivers for dozens 
> of different printers.
> 
> -forrest
> 
> Apptech wrote:
>> A friend asked me to download Vista drivers for an HP C4180 
>> printer for them as the download would have taken far too 
>> long on their connection..
>>
>>
>> Basic drivers    35 MB
>> Full drivers     167 MB.
>>
>> Maybe some apps as well in the full package. But,
>> Insanity.
>>
>>
>>
>>             Russell 
>>
> 
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