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From: Fabian@cup.portal.com (Fabian Fabe Ramirez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Moire 3 and Word 4 (also SLS and Word)
Message-ID: <25852@cup.portal.com>
Date: 12 Jan 90 20:38:40 GMT
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Jim,

I understand that you are now satisfied with our SuperLaserSpool product;
however, allow me to explain a few things...

#1  Please understand that we do NOT have true multi-tasking with the
    current Mac OS.  Thus, two processes cannot occurs simultaneously.

#2  Word 3.0 was a CPU hog, but versions 3.01 and 3.02 seems to solve part
    of the problem...which was when typing Word wasn't being too nice to ANY
    background process.

#3  Under MultiFinder any and all background processes are TOTALLY
    dependent upon MultiFinder to determine how much time they can get as a
    background process.  Under the Finder, SLS 2.0x make its own determination
    and in most cases, SLS and SuperSpool will be a little faster under the 
    Finder versus MultiFinder.

#4  Also...increasing the spoolers Print Buffer size (via the Laser Queue or
    Print Queue DA) will improve the performance of the spooler.

#5  Finally with respects to our advertising, SuperLaserSpool is compatible
    with the following printers: Apple's LaserWriter, LaserWriter Plus, 
    LaserWriter II SC/NT/NTX, AppleTalk ImageWriter II/LQ, and direct
    connect ImageWriter I/II/LQ; PostScript compatible laser printers that
    use Apple's LaserWriter driver; and any HP printer that is supported by
    Insight Development's MacPrint driver software.

I hope that this clarifies things.

Fabian Ramirez
SuperMac Technology

fabian@cup.portal.com