This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Printing Hack
Article: 7563 of alt.hackers From: elessar@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Erik Geiger) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Printing Hack Date: 30 Mar 1995 15:26:39 GMT Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 31 Approved: Yup!! Message-ID: 3leijf$dcu@spool.cs.wisc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: picard.cs.wisc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Status: RO
I just noticed that I managed to mung my post somewhat. I'm a lousy typist, so my apologies. The main portion of the post that was messed up was the line naming the Apple System 7 chooser extension that has the postscript print to file capabilities. It is Laserprinter 8.0. Once again, I apologize for the asthetic defects of my post. Ooops, I posted again, so now I need another ObHack: When prowling around in Connectix RamDoubler vers. 1.3 with ResEdit, I found a resource that had a setting for the factor by which RAM Doubler would in- crease your virtual RAM. I set it up to 3x and 4x at different times and it didn't seem to make a difference in the perfomance of my Mac. Since RAM doublerworks by 1) dynamically reallocating unused RAM from running applications, 2) bycompressing the data in RAM and 3) by creating a swap file for compressed data (since the swapping causes a noticable slow down, it is the last resort), I figure that messing that setting probably simply cause RAM Doubler to work "tighter". I figure I wouldn't have seen a slow down, except if I had actually been using all 24 megs of virtual RAM. I even ran Speedometer (a popular share ware benchmarking program for the Mac) and the slowdown even at 4x seemed to be nominal. A little while later, someone else who'd discovered this independantly wrote a control panel for the Mac which set this factor without ResEdit tweaking. I believe it was called MaxRAM, or somesuch. ______________________________________________________________________________ | elessar@picard.cs.wisc.edu |Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards; | | http://yar.cs.wisc.edu/~elessar/ |for they are subtle and quick to anger. | | | -- J.R.R. Tolkien | |__________________________________|_________________________________________|
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