From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 2 12:57:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.67.200.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE23037B417 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:57:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB2Kv0i44992 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:57:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from alane) Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:56:29 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge To: Eric Lam Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: parallel port i/o hogs cpu badly; is this normal? Message-ID: <20011202155629.A44942@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <20011202132001.A42382@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from cybercriminal@earthlink.net on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 12:49:40PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 free(sklyarov); To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message