burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton) (07/16/88)
I would like to use some of the extended memory in my IBM PC AT for a print spooler. I have been using the AST spooler (from the ATvantage software) but it has been freezing up unpredictably when I switch my AT from 6 MHz to 9 MHz. I use an Ariel speedup switch, and have no problems with VDISK or a disk cache program running in extended memory. My dealer has recommended "Lasertorq" from a small Bay Area company called Laserworks or some such. Does anyone have experience with this product, particularly in a high speed AT? Does it work? How good is the customer support? Are there any other spooler product, public domain or commercial, that work in extended memory? On a related matter, has anyone connected a Postscript printer to a PC's serial port and solved the problem of mixing Postscript and non-Postscript output to the printer? Philip Burton Convergent Technologies 408 435 3791