Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:56:29 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net> To: Eric Lam <cybercriminal@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: parallel port i/o hogs cpu badly; is this normal? Message-ID: <20011202155629.A44942@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <IAEKKLIOEBMAKJIIGEBBOEEDCGAA.cybercriminal@earthlink.net>; from cybercriminal@earthlink.net on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:49:40PM -0800 References: <20011202132001.A42382@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <IAEKKLIOEBMAKJIIGEBBOEEDCGAA.cybercriminal@earthlink.net>
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On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:49:40PM -0800, Eric Lam wrote: >It's normal. For example, in Windows, when I use my parallel port scanner >of zip drive, my mouse jumps around the screen, and my keyboard typing lags >for 10 seconds. Umm, Eric, you used the word "normal" in the context of Windows. There is absolutely nothing "normal" about Windows. :) Windows does have *expected* behavior. However, almost universally, if a computer running a multi-user OS exhibited the behavior that is expected of Windows, it would be considered to be malfunctioning quite severely. -- Alan Eldridge #include <cstdlib> free(sklyarov); To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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