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From: exspes@bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: The 'PHANTOM TYPIST'
Message-ID: <1990Feb13.114858.5081@bath.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Feb 90 11:48:58 GMT
References: <900204.10484196.021631@SFA.CP6>
Organization: University of Bristol c/o University of Bath
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In article <900204.10484196.021631@SFA.CP6> Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) writes:
>
>    There has been an increasing amount of talk about the 'phantom
>typist' on the ST, in which the computer appears to slow down and
>whatever characters are stored in the keyboard buffer, appear, albeit
>slowly.  Some programs which have keyboard commands, such as WordPerfect

I heard rumours some time ago that this was a side-effect (maybe or maybe
not intentional) of an early PD program called UHRLI.ACC, which when
selected would put a small digital clock display inside a tiny window.
I certainly have not seen the problem since I bought a cheap digital
watch to hang beside the computer, and stopped using UHRLI.  May just
be coincidence, though.



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