Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: > A better example would be a web browser or word processor. The > program stops responding to further input until the printer has > received the entire print job. This bothered people enough that > they came up with lpd/lpr ...
Back when lpr/lpd were first written, it was not just a matter of the printer "receiving" the entire print job but of (nearly) the entire job being completely printed. Few printers had more than a one-line buffer in those days. There was also the matter of sharing the printer among a considerable number of concurrent users, those being the days of multiuser PDP-11's and VAXen. BTW there was nothing particularly innovative about lpr/lpd -- mainframes like IBM 360's and even 7090's had been using print spoolers for years. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
