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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: An interesting idea...
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In article <927@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes:

   Oh, I have multi-tasking, too.  But I have more useful work for MY
   CPU, than printing SOMEONE ELSE's (or even my own) files.  So,
   I let my printer figure out the PS, while my CPU compiles, edits,
   and does file transfers (along with background game calculations).

Then buy Apple's LaserWriter.  Or if you are in a lab full of NeXTs,
don't use the server.  If your machine isn't networked then you aren't
printing someone elses files, just your own.  Thus printing won't be
normally be a problem.

   Just seems a LOT more logical to let the printer do its own work,
   than waste system CPU bandwidth doing it.  Yeah, they lowered the
   priority, but it shouldn't even be happening.

Well, you have a choice.  Spend $$$ and get the extra hardware, or buy
the one without it and spend a lot less.

I wonder which way gets your document printed faster.  I wouldn't be
surprised if the 040 NeXT be the Apple LaserWriters.

Consider how much CPU editing a file actually takes?  Most of the
time the computer is waiting on you and just wasting all of those
cycles anyway.

-Mike