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Article #621404Re: Old word processors
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:55
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:55
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On 3/22/2018 3:38 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:00:44 -0700, Peter Flass wrote: >> >> Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote: >>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:21:20 -0700, Peter Flass wrote: >> >>> CP/M could distinguish users. Although there was no real security around >>> at first. >>> >>> With MP/M (1979) you had multitasking. Thus you could send a file to the >>> printer while continuing other work, while on MS-DOS the PC would be >>> blocked until the print job was completed. That's while some companies >>> offered hardware printer buffers (for MS-DOS and other non-multitasking >>> systems) to avoid this. >> >> I thought print spooling was one of the few multitasking features in DOS. > > Can't tell, never used MS-DOS - well once on a computer training in the > Army in 1988 and in the mid 90s at home since it powered Windows 9x. But > I read a lot of ads in the BYTE magazine and others advertising external > printer spoolers, working with *any* OS. Although I thought Concurrent > CP/M (MP/M) wouldn't really need them. And that is what MP/M also > advertised in their own contemporary ads. > Dot matrix printers came with built-in RAM buffers... which often could be expanded with additional RAM. If you only print a few pages, it might all fit in the RAM buffer... and your computer would consider the print job finished. Thus you only needed an additional print spooler if you often printed large print jobs. -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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