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From: kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.att
Subject: flow control?
Message-ID: <252@bakerst.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 04:23:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: bakerst.252
Posted: Tue Sep 23 04:23:17 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Sep-86 23:30:06 EDT
Organization: bakerst, Winston-Salem, NC
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Keywords: keyboard, CRT, missed characters
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Question.  I've been noticing some messages 
lately on net.micro and net.micro.att that remind
me of a problem I've been experiencing all too
regularly on my machine, and I'm curious to know whether
anyone else has been having the same problem.

I'll be typing along when I realize that some of the
characters I'm typing aren't showing up on the screen.
Experimentation has shown that sometimes the characters
are being received by the system, sometimes they aren't.
In other words, I'll type in a command and only part of
it will show up on the screen, but when I <CR>, most of
the time, the command is executed. 

It happened the first time about three months ago -
right when my machine was in transition betwixt
warranty coverage and maintenance contract coverage ...
Happened again a bit later.  Then happened, like, once
a day for a week about two weeks ago.  (I don't know about
more recent history - I've been out of town for a while.)

The first few times, I noted that there had been heavy
electrical activity in the area - thunderstorms - immediately
prior to the occurrence of the problem.  Can't say that's true
for all of the later occurrences.

If I remember correctly, the similar sort of problems are
happening on 3B2s, and someone suggested a kernel flow control
problem???

Comments?


Kathy Vincent
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