Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:23:56 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: wblock@wonkity.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, rfg@tristatelogic.com Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS Message-ID: <4eabaa0c.mUEkZVfFc0vWrFDA%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110280039340.7372@wonkity.com> References: <23575.1319749979@tristatelogic.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110280039340.7372@wonkity.com>
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Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > A better example would be a web browser or word processor. The > program stops responding to further input until the printer has > received the entire print job. This bothered people enough that > they came up with lpd/lpr ... Back when lpr/lpd were first written, it was not just a matter of the printer "receiving" the entire print job but of (nearly) the entire job being completely printed. Few printers had more than a one-line buffer in those days. There was also the matter of sharing the printer among a considerable number of concurrent users, those being the days of multiuser PDP-11's and VAXen. BTW there was nothing particularly innovative about lpr/lpd -- mainframes like IBM 360's and even 7090's had been using print spoolers for years.
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