From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 1 12:35:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA28429 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 12:35:00 -0800 Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA28422 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 12:34:52 -0800 Received: (from dfr@localhost) by nlsys.demon.co.uk (8.6.10/8.6.9) id WAA00298; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 22:32:41 +0100 Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 22:32:40 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Joerg Wunsch cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Speed while printing In-Reply-To: <199504011336.PAA00804@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > As Doug Rabson wrote: > > > > I just attached a PostScript printer to my machine via /dev/lpt0 and > > while it prints fine (after hacking /etc/printcap a bit), my machine > > slows down to a crawl while it is sending stuff to the printer. Is this > > normal? Printing under Win95 does not show this effect. > > Are you sure it's working with interrupts? The boot probe message claims that it is. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsys.demon.co.uk Phone: +44 181 951 1891