Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: <1991Apr30.044318.31422@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 30 Apr 91 04:43:18 GMT References: <921@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <.29G1$1-1@cs.psu.edu> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu In article <.29G1$1-1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <921@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes: > > I paid my royalties, by buying a licensed cartridge for my IIP. I know > that you have 400 DPI, and that's nice. But, I'd rather the CPU be > able to do something else, while I print. It's just a personal choice. > If I had wanted to, I could have used a PD interpreter. > >Ever heard of multitasking? Then you know that the CPU can do >something else while it's printing. Wow, someone just printed while I >was typing this message. > >And before you mention it, NeXT changed the priority under 2.0 so that >printing has a lower priority. Isn't multitasking neat? > >-Mike Mike, come on, you KNOW what Dan meant as well as I do. Although it was more dramatic on the 68030, even on the 68040 converting PostScript to a 400dpi bitmap is time consuming. That time comes out of something. If it is a high priority process then all your other tasks take a speed hit. If it is a low priority process then the printing takes longer. In the end, if you have the CPU in the printer things are faster all around. They are also more expensive all around. Dan simply said he prefers having the two CPUs. This NeXT/Amiga flamage is just getting really stupid on both sides. -- Ethan "Brain! Brain! What is Brain?"