Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!mordor!joyce!sri-unix!ctnews!mitisft!burton From: burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Need info on "Lasertorq" and other print spooler packages Keywords: spoolers AT extended memory postscript Message-ID: <420@mitisft.Convergent.COM> Date: 16 Jul 88 01:01:47 GMT Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA Lines: 19 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