Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!peregrine!elroy!ames!killer!sulaco!allen
From: allen@sulaco.UUCP (Allen Gwinn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO XENIX/386 and a slow lp
Keywords: XENIX 386, lp is real slow
Message-ID: <256@sulaco.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 88 19:21:22 GMT
References: <5470@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <707@drexel.UUCP> <406@pigs.UUCP>
Organization: SULACO, Dallas, TX
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In article <707@drexel.UUCP> jeff@drexel.UUCP (Jeff White) writes:
>  We have a Tandy 3000 (8 MHz 286) running SCO, and when printing, the system
>does slow down (most noticeable during screen updates).  The reason I think 
>this happens is that the parallel port generates an interrupt for every
>character sent to the port.

If my memory serves me correctly, there is a solution to this in the
release notes contained in your Run Time Env manual.

-- 
Allen Gwinn  ...sulaco!allen        Disclaimer: The facts stated are my own.
"At the source of every error blamed on a computer you will find at least two
 errors...including the error of blaming it on the computer."