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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Using Two Screens
- Message-ID: <D2150035.civ4bi@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 04:01:15 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- In article <1186@xlnt.COM> (comp.sys.mac.hardware), rasp@xlnt.com (Ron Perloff) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug31.235407.28352@gtephx.UUCP> patfieldk@gtephx.UUCP (Kevin M.
- > Patfield) writes:
- >
- > >Anyone found good ways to use that 29 sq in of useful real-estate?
- > >Perhaps I should consider letting it as advertising space!
- >
- > Yes. In a networked, multi-printer environment, it is incredibly handy
- > to leave chooser on the native screen. Scrapbook is nice, too.
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- It might be handy, but leaving the chooser up can hurt network performance.
- The chooser repeatedly sends out NBP queries to see what is out there.
- This takes up network bandwidth.
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- Its not so bad if you're the only one doing it, but if everyone did
- it you might have some problems.
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