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From: lasteve@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Steven D Borrelli)
Subject: Re: An interesting idea...
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In article <927@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes:
>In <.29G1$1-1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>>Ever heard of multitasking?
>
>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).
>
>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.
>
>Dan Taylor
>/* My opinions, not NCR's. */

 I understand you point of view, but you have to look at the decison
to use a dum printer was made about two years ago whne prices were
a lot different. 

NeXT doesn't force you to use their printer. You can hook a lot of printers
to it, so the decision to use CPU resources to print is yours.


Steven D. Borrelli
lasteve@rpi.edu (NeXTmail)