Date   : Wed, 25 Jul 1984 04:59:00 MDT (Wed)
From   : CSTROM@Simtel20.ARPA
Subject: Wordstar 3.3 patching?

I assume that you are outputting the data to the spooler quite a bit
faster than 1200 baud, correct? Unfortunately, WS has a nasty habit of
sending the character stream out the printer port at a very slow rate.
I assume that at least part of the delay is due to processing for the
target printer, but I would not be a bit surprised if there was some
delay built in as well, allowing effective simultaneous editing while
printing without hogging the resources of the CPU.

I think you would find that the actual effective output is faster than
1200 baud; on systems with buffers and 1200 baud printers, the buffer
does indeed fill, but certainly the effective baud rate is probably
more on the order of 2400 baud or thereabouts (a seat of the pants
guess). I will try to get some info on this out of my friends at
MicroPro, but things seem to get more screwed up there every day, so
don't expect much from that quarter.