[cups.development] Diablo emulation

[Philip Prindeville]

Hi.

This might be a little off-topic, but I figure that you'd all appreciate 
the endeavor and have a pretty wide breadth of knowledge.

I'm working for a museum (indirectly... can't give a lot of detail about 
the project because of an NDA until it's completed) to build a simulator 
of the Xerox PARC Alto (to give people perspective on just how 
groundbreaking the Alto was).  Right now I'm staring at the problem of 
printing.

I just grepped through the foomatic database for Diablo and didn't find 
anything noteworthy just that the Okidata OL830Plus apparently did 
Diablo 630 emulation in addition to PS + PCL.

Anyone know what the shortest path would be for cobbling up some sort of 
converter from a Diablo datastream to PS, PCL, or PDF (or even 
raster/bitmap)?  Any resources for this project would be awesome.

Thanks,

-Philip