Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!apple!mattd From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: problems with ProTERM under System Software 5.0 Message-ID: <33749@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 5 Aug 89 06:17:49 GMT References: <8908040733.aa10223@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 29 In article <8908040733.aa10223@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> V2071A@TEMPLEVM.BITNET ("George A. Piotrowski Jr.") writes: > > I have not run into this specific problem, but I have found a problem >which I have uncovered. I have a switch box on my modem port to switch >between the modem and the Laserwriter. I leave slot 2 selected to your >card and slot 7 to Built in Appletalk. So all I have to do is hit the >switch when I want to print on the laser. The problem I have encountered >is that when slot 7 is set to Appletalk, once I get connected to any BBS >or the Schools IBM, I get garbage like there is an incredible amount of >line noise. Once I set slot 7 bact to your card and reboot, Proterm >works fine. Do any of the Apple people in the System Group have any >reasons that this is happening??? > >George A. Piotrowski Bitnet: V2071A@TEMPLEVM On the whole, ProTERM seems rather intolerant of interrupts it didn't enable. I've seen what you describe when any interrupt sources were running when ProTERM was launched (heartbeat tasks like text clocks or the debugger init, AppleTalk, etc.). I guess it's a design flaw. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Deatherage, Apple Computer, Inc. | "The opinions expressed in this tome Send PERSONAL mail ONLY (please) to: | should not be construed to imply that AppleLink PE: Matt DTS GEnie: AIIDTS | Apple Computer, Inc., or any of its CompuServe: 76703,3030 | subsidiaries, in whole or in part, Usenet: mattd@apple.com | have any opinion on any subject." UUCP: (other stuff)!ames!apple!mattd | "So there." -----------------------------------------------------------------------------