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Article #3253Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Dan Pop
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:57
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:57
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In <4g13s5$q90@nyx.cs.du.edu> kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas) writes: >ghansen@isc.sjsu.edu (Gregory L Hansen) writes: > >>In article <danpop.824304112@rscernix>, Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote: > >>One thing I don't know the answer to, though, is why the CMT System 7 >>makes users wait for printing and disk formatting. I'm sure it didn't >>have to. Luckily I can print in the background and I rarely need to >>format floppies. But it's still kind of annoying when everything stops >>if I click on a menu or on a window title bar or something. > >We've been saying over and over again that you have a choice whether you >want background printing or not. When you select your printer in the >chooser, just click "on" under background printing. It's been that way >for at least seven years. And it was repeated over and over again that background printing is not supported for any printer. Anybody knows why? Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!rcp6.elan.af.mil!rscernix!danpop From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 16 Feb 96 13:57:51 GMT Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics Message-ID: <danpop.824479071@rscernix> References: <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.82 <nevin-1302961823100001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.824304112@rscernix> <4g00uj$gaq@nuke.csu.net> <4g13s5$q90@nyx.cs.du.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ues5.cern.ch X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #7 (NOV)