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Oh yeah... I wanted to add one more thing about the SuperScreen.
The keyboard is TERRIBLE (at least for Unix). They have the same
keyboards as the MicroAngelo. While these keyboards can generate
any eight-bit value, some of them are hard to get. For example,
backslash is CTRL-SHIFT-F. Verticle bar is CTRL-SHIFT-H. Ick.
Someone'll have to put a real keyboard on it; shouldn't be too
hard.
The window software needs the eight bit codes, by the way.info-terms (04/02/83)
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Ok, I think I was wrong about the PC board in January. After all,
I wasn't there to look at SuperScreens. Anyway, I wanted to add
that I just heard from someone who's working there that they've
tossed out those lousy MicroAngelo keyboards, and have a real
keyboard on it. (Hooray! Now we don't have to do it ourselves.)
I just read Ron Fischer's latest message, and I'll bet that the
high-speed RAMs with the inner loops for software help alot. The
graphics as I remember them were about the same speed as the BitGraph
[remember this is subjective and suffering from about 6 month's
worth of random distortions: I think there's a few checksum errors
in there]. So now with it running twice as fast, it should be
really impressive. I'll have to run down there sometime soon and
take a look at it.
- Chris