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Date:      Sat, 1 Apr 1995 15:36:46 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        dfr@nlsys.demon.co.uk (Doug Rabson)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Speed while printing
Message-ID:  <199504011336.PAA00804@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950401134823.398A-100000@nlsys.demon.co.uk> from "Doug Rabson" at Apr 1, 95 01:50:25 pm

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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?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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