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From: Dave Garland
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On 3/21/2018 7:00 PM, Peter Flass wrote:
> Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:

>> 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.
> 

I don't think so. ISTR being happy when I found a (freeware/shareware) 
TSR that would print spool.

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