Fast parallel driver for Unix/Xenix AT?

Dave Emmerson emmo at moncam.co.uk
Fri Nov 24 00:45:51 AEST 1989


In article <256ADBB5.19093 at ateng.com>, chip at ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> [stuff omitted]
> know.  It's a crying shame to have slow printer output when it's the driver
> causing the slowdown.

Forget it, the printer itself is usually the bottleneck, there's no point in
worrying about getting > 1k char/sec to a printer which can only output at
80 cps and only has an 4k buffer.
Use a large-ish printer spooler buffer and let it trundle away in the
background.

Dave E.



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