On 04-27-97, RICK PALI said to MARK WRIGHT:
MW> The printer will not use a interrupt unless it is postscript
RP>Why is that? Why would the computer care whether it's sending binary or
RP>ASCII data and trigger an interrupt only for the ASCII?
There's nothing inherent in ANY page description language that forces this.
It's a feature primarily based on hardware (but needs to be supported by the
OS and printer driver) for faster throughput, which is useful for those
printers with large buffers and/or fast processors...
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