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Article #621403Re: Old word processors
From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:38
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:38
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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. -- Andreas My random toughts and comments https://news-commentaries.blogspot.com/
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