bcase (03/31/83)
#R:uiucdcs:24700011:uiucdcs:24700012:000:106 uiucdcs!bcase Mar 30 16:03:00 1983 I find it HARD to beleive that it could be the display's fault. I mean, come on, really, was he serious?
bcase (03/31/83)
#R:uiucdcs:24700011:uiucdcs:24700013:000:24 uiucdcs!bcase Mar 30 20:37:00 1983 Oh. I stand corrected.
donchin (03/31/83)
#R:uiucdcs:24700011:uiucdcs:24700014:000:269 uiucdcs!donchin Mar 30 21:54:00 1983 I should add that we tried running XTALK at 9600, 4800 and 2400 baud and the only speed at which the display kept up was 2400. The fault is not at the Harris side as it supports many terminals at 9600. The symptoms at 9600 are missing characters, unfilled lines etc.
preece (03/31/83)
#R:uiucdcs:24700011:uicsl:7300005:000:668 uicsl!preece Mar 30 17:05:00 1983 The GRAPHICS display does have a speed problem (but not due to character generation). The stock text display routines (in the BIOS) wait for the vertical blanking time before displaying a character. This drastically limits the display speed, but avoids display tearing and snow. Some terminal programs avoid the BIOS routines and write characters directly into the graphic display's memory. This is much faster, but there is some ugly visual static while characters are being written to the screen. My understanding was that the monochrome display avoided this problem (maybe only if you go around the BIOS routines). scott e preece uiuc - coordinated science lab