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From: ewen@actrix.gen.nz (Ewen McNeill)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Kaypro II communications at high baud rates
Summary: Repeated screen clears shouldn't cause missed bytes
Keywords: Kaypro Screen Clears Speed
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.215841.23232@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 21 Dec 90 21:58:41 GMT
References: <1990Dec5.125959.2947@techbook.com> <15766.2767c571@levels.sait.edu.au> <28971@usc>
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Comment-To: mlinar@pollux.usc.edu

In article <28971@usc> mlinar@pollux.usc.edu (Mitch Mlinar) writes:
> 
> With the KayPLUS ROM, I can run at a peak of 4800 baud.  I can't quite
> remember, but I think that consecutive screen-clears will ultimately cause
> a char to be dropped.
> 
IMHO that is a little silly.  My terminal program (runs in the
native mode of my CP/M machine) traps that.   I did this mostly
because the screen is bit-mapped (16K) and takes _ages_ to clear
(well, ages in processor time!).    Some of the BB systems I know
(Opus particularly) send 3 or 4 clear screen sequences. 
 
I would have thought that any reasonable bios/comms program would
have the same trap.

-- 
Ewen McNeill.				Email: ewen@actrix.gen.nz