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From: U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: VT100v2.9 losing characters (Was Re: 68000 Multitasking)
Message-ID: <1439@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 20 Dec 90 00:15:21 GMT
References: <4158@mindlink.UUCP>
Organization: I.A.E.S.R., Melbourne University
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G'day,

In article <4158@mindlink.UUCP>, a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
> [...earlier context deleted...]

>      I've found on my 1000 that a terminal program running at 2400
> bps chews up a lot of the processor's time.  I found myself getting
> overruns from time to time until I increased the serial port's buffer
> size.  Go into Preferences and select "Change Serial."  Check the
> "Buffer Size" entry; it's likely at the original value of 512 bytes.
> I ran mine up as high as I could (16000) and I no longer have any
> problems.

I believe I do have my preferences buffer size setting set quite high (same as
yours I think, I'd have to check) but I routinely lose characters when I use 1
of the versions of the VT100 v2.9 (I think it is the A version).

*However* I am running it at 9600 baud over a terminal server line. :-)

Am I expecting too much of VT100 v2.9 (or my A1000)?

Or might I have some other problem (I've not noticed it with other emulators,
that I albeit use rarely enough to easily have missed this).

I was in fact worried that my serial port (or the associated chips) had been
damaged when a friend of mine attached the wrong serial cable to it... there
was a spark from my serial port that I haven't been able to forget about...

:-(

> Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP

yours truly,
Lou Cavallo.