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- NEWS FROM C= HOMESTEAD
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- 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
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