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NEWS FROM C= HOMESTEAD
Maurice Randall is working on an
upgraded disk operating system for the
CMD Hard Drive (which Maurice now
manufactures and sells). The latest
improvement is a built-in printer
spooler. Here's Maurice to tell you
about it:
This HD is amazing me! As I play
with it I'm having fun trying it out.
These machines are remarkable devices.
Today I booted up into Wheels and
printed a geoWrite file. I'm using a
dot-matrix printer for testing. The
slowness of it gives me time to try
various things.
Anyway, geoWrite started sending
the data, the HD intercepted it and
began storing the data to its printer
partition. Almost immediately, it also
began spooling it off to the real
printer. It didn't take long for the
entire geoWrite file to be captured by
the HD.
I then exited geoWrite back to the
Dashboard. The HD was still sending
data to the printer.
I copied a couple of files to the
HD. Even during the copying process,
data continued to go to the printer.
The printer was happily chugging away.
I ran a few applications from the HD.
They loaded fine even while printing
was taking place. I was very pleased
to see that the Wheels disk driver
turbo code running in the HD wasn't
interferring with the print spooler!
(Note: I planned it that way four
years ago!)
I then exited the current app and
returned to the Dashboard. I clicked
on the menu to exit back to BASIC. The
HD was still working on that geoWrite
file even while in BASIC.
I loaded up CMD's FCOPY and copied
some files to and from the HD. I
exited FCOPY. I did @$=P to view the
partition directory. I found the
Loadstar partition and switched to it.
The printer was still going.
Dot-matrix printers are great for this
test!
I loaded up Loadstar and messed
around looking at stuff, loading stuff
and such. The geoWrite file was still
coming out of the printer. While
reading a text file from the Loadstar
Presenter, I pressed 'P' to print it.
It spooled off to the HD's printer
partition at the same time the
geoWrite file was still going to the
printer.
I exited Loadstar and booted back
into Wheels and got back to some
programming. The geoWrite file finally
finished printing.
And lo and behold, the text file
from the Loadstar partition started
coming out of the printer while I was
running Concept and assembling a file.
This is too much...
-Maurice
[Dave's Rave:] And LOADSTAR was there
to prove it! I am determined to get my
C-64 system up to snuff in 2002 -- and
a HD is definitely on the list of
needed upgrades!
DMM