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Article #621405Re: Old word processors
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 20:52
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 20:52
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On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 04:55:46 -0500, Charles Richmond wrote: > > On 3/22/2018 3:38 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: >> >> 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. Would they take several pages (one page text might be around 1KB)? What about daisywheel printers and RAM? Why would they advertise RAM spoolers if there was no need for? -- Andreas My random toughts and comments https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/
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