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On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 04:59:50 -0500, Charles Richmond
<nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:

>On 3/22/2018 10:37 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 22:32:07 -0500, Dave Garland
>> <dave.g...@wizinfo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> In any case it would have only worked with "well behaved" programs and
>> nothing to speak of was "well behaved", which is why the
>> non-IBM-compable MS-DOS boxes were so generally useless (I still have
>> two Victor 9000s and an Apricot).
>> 
>
>On your LAN, you might set up your MS-DOS incompatible... to be a 
>dedicated print server.

If (a) you can find network interface cards for both machines that
support the same network protocol and (b) your applications are well
behaved enough that you can redirect output to the LAN from them. This
latter wasn't guaranteed--some software accessed the I/O ports
directly.

>Everyone on the LAN could send the printout to 
>the server, and the software there would schedule the printing to the 
>attached printer or printers..