Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Karl Thomas
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 05:44

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danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:

>In <4g13s5$q90@nyx.cs.du.edu> kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas) writes:

>>ghansen@isc.sjsu.edu (Gregory L Hansen) writes:
>>
>>>In article <danpop.824304112@rscernix>, Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
>>
>>We've been saying over and over again that you have a choice whether you 
>>want background printing or not.  When you select your printer in the 
>>chooser, just click "on" under background printing.  It's been that way 
>>for at least seven years.

>And it was repeated over and over again that background printing is not
>supported for any printer.  Anybody knows why?

It's not supported for the Imagewriter dot matrix printers.  But who 
would use a dot matrix printer today?  If you're still using a dot matrix
printer on the Mac in 1996.  CMT is the least of your problems.

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From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 17 Feb 1996 22:44:13 -0700
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