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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Background print spooler
Message-ID: <39113@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 90 22:47:40 GMT
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In article <1139@madnix.UUCP> rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt) writes:
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>Need I say that Davex comes WITH background print spooling right out of
>"the box"?

True...it's not fancy, but it works nicely.  (There's no box, though.)

>Question: when will we see Davex 1.3??  How about a 65802 16-bit version
>for ProDOS 8??

The next release will be called 1.26.  I actually finished 1.25, but someone
found an icky bug (I broke getting keyboard input during an exec file).
Soon.

I don't have any plans to do a 65802 version, although everybody is free to
write external commands that require a 65802 if they want to.  Davex doesn't
currently even require a 65C02...works great on a II+ or an unenhanced IIe.
There's a small amount of GS-specific 65816 code in there (for displaying
the time, and in a couple Gs-only commands, for example).

Are there particular features that are too slow & would benefit from
special 65802 code, or what?
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