The Wang spooler was probably running directly attached printers (via serial or parralell interfaces). This would allow the spooler to "know" much more about the status of a job than the more "modern" printers that are network attached (and deal with complete print jobs in one fell swoop). For a network attached printer to offer up the same funtionality, full two way communication of status as it happens would need to occur. While the Wang may have had much better control over the print job, how long did you have to wait for that 500+ page report???
Today we just print the whole thing, take one look at the first page, decide it's all wrong and print it again (and again, and again)... ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
