Msg: 5330 *Conference*
08-16-94 00:33:34
From: COMET _
To : ANDREW DILLER
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #5322 (SPEEDY DISPLAY)
Yep, that's the only emulator program I've seen for the m100. I believe it works faster than 300 baud, but the screen gets buffered and not displayed until it's built. There was a patch to the original VT100 emulation code to add ANSI-emulation; I don't think ADM emulation, per se, was added. In regards to 9600 baud being a Unix standard for direct-connect terminals... it depends. It depends on which Unix computer you are using, and typically the speed defaults are configurable. I know VAXen running VMS are configurable this way, and Unix has been around a fairly long time, back when hardcopy terminals were commonplace--I don't believe there's a documented official Unix default, but I understand that it's probably a de facto setting nowadays. But I wouldn't pin this common setting on the OS! Since the 8 lines by 40 character screeen couldn't really be made to display 80 characters and 24 lines using human-readible glyphs, having the Model 100 provide a viewport onto a virtual VT100 display seems to make sense. Writing an assembly-language program would allow the m100 to not have to send so many XON/XOFF sequences. The entire screen can be painted in about .2 seconds, I think. :-) You might want to use a larger buffer size than standard--I think Mo Budlong may have done something along this line. If you write up such a machine-language program, with aMODEM support and all, for an option ROM, I'm sure that Rick Hanson here would happily market it. I'd thought of doing such a project myself, but I'm not [yet ] experienced enough (IMHO) in m100 assembly routines and programming to undertake this project. :-)