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From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Keyboard/mouse problems on the STE (was Re: Phantom strikes again?)
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Date: 2 Sep 90 23:51:55 GMT
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ekrimen@csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes:

|I had thought it was STalker doing it, but I don't know.  Desk 
|accessories that multitask sometimes start the 'Esc key sequence' 
|when you move the mouse while the da's are operating, like with 
|Mystic and STalker.

What you are probably seeing in those cases are the IKBD interrupt
handler missing some interrupts because of time spent servicing RS232
interrupts.  Or maybe not.



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