Personal OS vs Multiuser OS

[Chad Irby]

Peter Hollin (rasp...@clark.net) wrote:

: My point is that the macs cannot efficently send small packets
: without causing the system to give you a stopwatch.
: This may have changed with system 7.5, or the powermac hardware.
: But try hooking up a Mac IIvx to *any* dot matrix
: and you will see that it is not, indeed "background" printing.

All I can say is that you have something set up wrong. I've set up Macs
of all flavors, printing to every kind of printer I can think of, and if
you have all of the right system software installed (a real possibility
in your case, with a school lab), then the Mac backgrounds just fine.
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