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From: scotty@ziggy.UUCP (Scott Drysdale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wherest out thart X and thy unix for my fair amiga
Keywords: unix Xwindows amiga trailblazer vt100 2.4
Message-ID: <130@ziggy.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 05:22:00 GMT
References: <340@sirius.UUCP>
Reply-To: scotty@ziggy.UUCP (Scott Drysdale)
Organization: Un*x Link,Frederick Md.
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as to your "pause, gobble, then spew" comment on the VT100 program at 9600
baud...  that's how most of the terminal programs actually keep up at very high
speeds - they buffer incoming data but don't display it until the internal
buffer fills or there is a pause in the input.  i don't think the screen
(even with fastfonts or something similar) can actually put out enough stuff
per second on a character by character basis, so it gets a chunk and then
outputs it in one or more large Text() calls.
  --Scotty